Friday, 28th December
Up at 7 and left at 8:15. The continental breakfast had cereal including flavoured porridge sachets, bagels, pastries, muffins (English and American). Drove west along highway 40 which crisscrossed route 66 and ran along it. Route 66 was accessible in parts. Crossed into Arizona at Needles after driving through rocky, dry hills.
Stopped for lunch on route 66 at Seligman. This turned out to be a great stop. There was an original one- room jail and a replica row of shop fronts, an original motel and . . . Road Kill Café. The bar had taxidermied animals and heads, the locals at the bar sounded like actors in a Wild West movie and the menu was hilarious – eg High Speed Special, Too Slow Doe, Long Gone Fawn, Off the Roof Hoof, Bad Brake Steak. Chris got a Route 66 road sign and Matthew got a Road Kill Café shirt with part of the menu on the back.
The motorbike in the shop window is woven like a basket.
The fifties car in the diner car park has ‘dummies’ dressed in fifties gear.
The scenery then changed to dry grassy ranches/plains with rocky mountains and snow capped peaks. As we climbed to 6000 feet there was road side snow. Today we saw quite a few long trains. The scenery has been very dry and rocky but with not the cacti we were expecting. Tomorrow’s forecast is 35 degrees F (0 degrees C) down to 12 degrees F (-14 degrees C) overnight. It will be cold in the morning going down to breakfast. It is 17% humidity and we are constantly being zapped. Chris is most unimpressed by this.
Our motel – Days Inn on Route 66 at Flagstaff has snow in the parking lot and our room looks out to a mountain ridge with a rail line running across it.
Our motel – Days Inn on Route 66 at Flagstaff has snow in the parking lot and our room looks out to a mountain ridge with a rail line running across it.