Hi Randy! Borderstone coming in from Phoenix,AZ myself!
Right now I live about 15 or so miles south of the Carefree Highway and have only traveled on it once. If you've seen it,it's not all that spectacular except for there not yet being anything built near it (last I saw anyway).
He did indeed write about that. At the show I went to 2 years ago Aug. 6th,he mentioned that he was coming back from Flagstaff south on Interstate 17 and noticed a sign that read Carefree Highway. The sign he's under in the Songbook booklet is not the one he saw,that's long gone. I didn't even know there really was a C. highway until about 6 or 7 years after I moved here,when I looked at a map of Phoenix.
Been me. Later!
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"A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm."
- Borderstone