ife is a hwy & I wanna ride it all night long day 2 of rd trip to ca

Life is a hwy I wanna drive it all night

That song was playing when we stopped at The Cadillac Ranch, & then it was playing as we started the leg of the trip close to the az/ca border. We were about 97 miles to the Ca border & 400 miles to Los angeles.

Wow what a quote….. the boys were in the backseat talking about an inapporiate cartoon show. Alex was trying to add lines to a famous from the show. I told him he couldn’t say that. They asked how I knew it wasn’t a part of the quote. I told them I used to watch the show when it 1^st came out when I was young, Drakeston said when was that way back in 1930. I was drinking some green gatoraide & I snorted, it was looking I was able to restrain my self from spraying it all over the computer from laughter…..

Now back to the main events  of the day. Since we got in so late last night we wanted to sleep in & we didn’t worry about setting an alarm, I did want to leave at like 7am  or 8am. I woke up when the sun started peeking through the curtains, my phone said 9am but it was still in tx time, we were in pacific so it actually was 7am. I woke everyone up & we got ready, had our hotel froot loops, packed up the car, & headed out. We detoured to the painted dessert. If I had known I would’ve made a plan to visit the petrfired forest. It was 20 mins before our hotel in Holbrook.

We then headed to the grand canyon. We stopped at bedrock city just outside the canyon. It had a really good lunch menu. & it had recreated the town of bedrock from the cartoon the Flintstones.  Pretty cute but  not  exciting.

We picked the perfect day to go the Grand Canyon. it was between 78-85 degrees at the canyon just depending where you were at. I had been talking to my bf who lives in the OKC area & it was 105 where he was at. I saw a facebook friend's status that it was 109 in Needles. im not sure which state that is in I guess AZ but we were driving through it when I saw her status post about Needles.

Our grand Canyon experience wasnt as grand as expecting & due to impatient family not wanting to listsen to the communication we had to give them, we spent a lot of time bus hopping throughout the canyon instead of actually getting to see different areas of it. It was still fun even though we spent about 2 hrs on a bus for a 4-5 hr visit. We decided we would make a whole trip just to the Canyon as our next trip. They have a lot of neat cabins there, its a nice community. IF we go back we want to take the helicopter tour & go rafting through the Canyon.

We are currently in Barstow,Ca its the final stop on route 66 before you reach Los Angeles. Our hotel is next door to a Starbucks so i will be getting some of that. The Mcdonalds is across the st & its in a train car, so we may go visit that. Today we head to 6 Flags magic mountain near Los Angeles. My pics are uploading as we speak so look for them to come. We have been through every city or town that is known for being on route 66.

i get my kicks on route 66 day 1 rd trip to ca

Well the day before any trip is always long for preparations & such, well this trip was no different. I ended up going to bed between 3:15am & 3:30am and waking about 1.5-2 hrs later. I went to work an hr early so we could leave earlier. We were scheduled to leave at 12:30pm, at 12:45 I called to see where my family was & they hadn’t left home yet. HOME IS 1 HR FROM WHERE I WORK. I could’ve worked my regular shift. We started our trip at 2pm. I was expecting it to be a pretty boring leg of the trip, but it wasn’t. they say the longest part of a rd trip is getting out of TX. That was the case here. I really thought driving through west tx would be so boring & mind-numbing as Alex’s commercial would say. It was pretty had cute painted houses & buildings. Each small town had some cool looking shops. We had planned on stopping at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo,TX,(an art project for a university in the 60’s or 70’s that stuck 10 cadillac cars up right in the ground, & then were painted. It since has become a graffiti park & you leave your mark  so the art is always changing.) but we also decided that the Big Texan steak house was a great photo op, so we turned around & stopped there as well. Those 2 photo stops took 2 hrs. we had only been driving 2.5 hrs at this point. We thought it was an 8 hr drive but we were forgetting the time changes, & it was really a 10 hr drive. I was slated for 4 hrs of driving. I pulled over just after entering into New Mexico. It was just a Love’s struck stop or so we thought. It had a free car museum, so we had to stop & look & take more pics. That 5 min stop to change drivers and get gas .  turned into an hr stop. It was well worth the time.

Our first hotel was in Holbrook, AZ. We had to drive through alberque, NM & Gallup, NM. I started driving again after driving again in Gallup & had a very scary driving rd. I had set cruise control at 75 not knowing that it was immediately gonna turn into a curvy steep area & had to drop from 75 to like 40 instantly. We were driving through canyons. I wasn’t even aware we were in canyons I thought what I was seeing was clouds, & then next thing I knew we were next door to the largest canyon ever. Then it settled back into a normal hwy. we finally arrived in Holbrook,AZ, & entered into pacific Time. Our clocks which was in mt  time said 1:15am, we went inside the motel & it said 12:15am but in TX time it was 2:15 am, so we were on the rdx just over 12 hrs. There was a slight problem with the reservation & took about 30 mins to resolve, then we had sleep finally.

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