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 1st 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.
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