This is one of the best videos I’ve seen about the semi-wild burros that roam the streets of the Route 66 town of Oatman, Ariz.
You see the burros interacting with people and each other, plus you get to gaze on a cute young burro named Jelly Bean. The video was shot in 2004; Jelly Bean would long be an adult burro by now.
The burros are descendants of the burros that once worked in the area’s gold mines many decades ago. The townsfolk periodically bring in a few wild burros from Mexico to keep the population from getting too inbred.
AS YOU CAN SEE THESE DONKEYS ARE VERY SPECIAL NOTHING COMMON AT ALL, AND THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN, APPEARED TO BE HAPPY WITH THEIR VISIT, SOME FEEDING THEM OTHERS LOOKED SURPRISED WELL DONE
The drive along this section of Route 66 offers winding road with active and closed gold mines, 1000’s of wind turbines, a solitary saloon plus the surprise of the burros. We’re on way back and will stop again at Winslow and say at the fabulous Posada Hotel. An don’t
forget “Standing on the Corner in Winslow, Arizona. Next stop, Grand Canyon.