And, oh, what an update from Charlotte Doyle, one of the out-of-state residents who will be joining us in September. You'll have to read the reunion book for her entire report, but here's part of it. SO impressive!
"In 2013, a friend sent us an email about the Giant Concrete Arrows Across America. Never having heard of them, I started researching where they were and created 'Arrows Across America' to share their locations.
"Brian [her husband] and I decided to see how many of the arrow sites we could get to and
take pictures of. We have been on 4 arrow quests and logged over 22,000
miles since we started. We have visited 19 States and photographed 94
arrow locations.
"Our website about the concrete arrows and beacons had 14 million hits last year:
"The
concrete arrows have given us our 15 minutes of fame repeatedly. Daily
Mail Travel Online featured some of our photos, which caused us to be
contacted by producers out of England to film a segment for the TV show 'What on Earth.' We filmed in the Nevada desert at 2 of the arrows in
Aug. It was grueling, the segment about us was shown on February 16,
2016 on the Science Channel. It was called 'Large arrows in America's
Badlands' (Season 2, Episode 4 Who Built Supervillain Island?).
"We’ve
had photos in the Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine and phone
interviews with many different news agencies across the country, even
one from France. CNN Travel interviewed us in 2018 and published some of
our photos.
"It’s been an adventure of a lifetime. We have met so many wonderful people along our journey."
Editor's note: isn't that true of all of us? We've met so many interesting people over the past 50 years!
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