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Day 34 – Grand Canyon and Williams Arizona

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Our second day of a two day road trip to Northern Arizona where we visited the and another portion of Route 66 at . This second day had us exploring the Desert View Watch Tower with brilliant Hopi Indian art, the El Tovar Hotel and Hopi House, the Bright Angel Lodge, Kolb Studio and Hermit Rest, all creations. After a long wonderful day, dinner after sunset was on Route 66 in Williams Arizona at Poncho McGillicuddy’s Mexican restaurant.

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Day 33 – Meteor Crater and Winslow Arizona

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Our first day trip after spending over a month on the road in our RV was to visit the historic , simply because of The Eagles song “Take it Easy”. We simply had to have our picture taken “!” 17 Miles west of Winslow however, was the 50,000 year old and site of NASA training missions for moon exploration and site of filming for one of Rob’s favorite movies Star Man with Jeff Bridges, filmed in 1984. Discovering the famous quite by accident, we left Winslow wondering “why on earth does that town exist anyway?”

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Day 19 – Route 88 The Apache Trail

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The is officially known as and runs eastward from Apache Junction to Roosevelt Dam where it meets up with Route 188. In between these two points we discovered an are rich in history and some incredibly terrifying roads. Starting our day with the and , we moved on to and toured the home made where we watched an old west shootout. is located where the pavement ends and the 22 miles of gravel begins. We stopped for lunch at the famous where Rob saddled up to the bar before trying their chili. The next 2 hours on gravel road and down was about the most invigorating and terrifying thing we’ve ever done. We were never more grateful for pavement when we got to the end.

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