PHOTO OF THE DAY August 24, 2005  

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Where Route 66, Arizona
When 1996
Photographer Vincent J. Musi

Seen from famed Route 66, storm clouds darken a desert landscape. The highway stretches from Chicago to Los Angeles. It is about 2,448 miles (3,939 kilometers) long and crosses eight states and three time zones.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Route 66," September 1997, National Geographic magazine)


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