Is it a wonder we wanted to get away to somewhere warm??
Anyway, we took off on the 13th and the drive down was great, Beau was a great little traveler in his own personal Beauville, which was essentially the entire back seat of the car. He had his bed, blankets, treats, all his little comforts. He actually had more room in the car than either of us and he's the littlest. Can you say spoiled dog?
We had sunny weather and no rain the entire way. The only snow we saw was on the side of the roads as we went through some of the passes:
After spending the first night in Idaho we continued on and spent night two in Utah, and had dinner at a great Chinese buffet. We had some second thoughts as we were walking over from the hotel, Chinese buffet in Price, Utah?? But the hotel person said it was great and it was! Absolutely jamming with people and very, very good food. We stuffed ourselves!
As we continued through Utah's canyons it brought back a lot of memories of when we lived on the rez and used to travel some of these road on a regular basis...man, that was a long time ago. But they are still as beautiful now as they were then.
When we lived on the rez, major shopping normally meant a 270 mile round trip to Farmington New Mexico. On the way back we invariably stopped at the trading post at Mexican Water to get a milkshake for the last leg of the ride home. We couldn't resist stopping in for a repeat performance. Here's Ralph coming out of the restaurant with the milkshakes, still great! But inflation has struck and they were $5 each rather than $2. But we enjoyed them and the memories just the same.
We continued on through Kayenta, home of church rock:
Then on to Tuba City, Flag and Phoenix and finally Casa Grande! Woohoo! Break out the shorts and sandals!!
Ralph & Beau seem to have survived the trip just fine. Let the warm relaxing begin!!
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