We're On The Road

Hi, from Kingman, Arizona. Kingman is a working class town with a small Italian restaurant named Strombolis - and it's food is good.

We left Corrales early this morning - 6:00 AM to beat the morning rush hour traffic. Having been to the Grand Canyon several times, the drive to Flagstaff, Arizona was old hat for us. However, once we got past Flagstaff, everything became new.

You know you're in Arizona when the rest area has this sign...

We stopped at a small store to get some gas and they had some neat metal sculpture in front. If we had been in our truck instead of our convertible, I would have been tempted to buy this metal horse...

This is a great time of year. The late summer wild flowers are all in bloom and the yellow color was everywhere along with the brown mesas, fluffy white clouds and deep blue skies...

Half way between Flagstaff and Kingman, we decided to take a side trip along an 86-mile stretch of the original Route 66.

It's probably one of the few places where you can still see Burma Shave poems...

We went through several small towns that probably haven't changed much since the glory days of the Mother Road. One in particular was Hackberry, Arizona and the Hackberry General Store. It was a neat and very unusual place and I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...

Today was a good first day for our trip. We drove a total of 504 miles. Tomorrow we head for California. Hopefully, it will not have gone into bankruptcy and the doors to the state will still be open ;)

(Update: We just finished watching New Mexico Governor Susanna Martinez give her speech at the GOP convention and she did a fantastic job. Well done, Gov.)

 

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