We spent today driving from Tucumcari, New Mexico to Flagstaff, Arizona. We know that we are mainly driving now - it is time to begin to think of home, but we are making notes of places we want to stop next time. This is just desert driving, but the desert is beautiful in many ways. As we drove, we drove through some of the old towns on Route 66. We also took turns taking naps in "the cave" (as we have called the back seat). Elizabeth is the usual passenger in the back seat, so we call her the "cave dweller". However, she is willing to share the cave when someone else wants to take a nap. And, she left her mother have the cave the whole time she was ill.
While we have shared responsibilities and places in the car, we mainly acted along these lines:
Christie - driver
Lorie - journalist
Elizabeth - cave dweller and reporter of text messages that came in throughout the day, mainly from Melissa or Grandma.
People may wonder about the "journalist" role for Lorie. Lorie keeps a notebook that is a running record of what is happening throughout the trip. It is both a record of events and a recording of thoughts and ideas she has at the time. She records the time and what is happening. She also keeps track of things we spot such as license plates, dead animals, trains, and anything else that we deem important enough to keep a list of. Whoever sits in the passenger seat in the front has to be the journalist. Elizabeth and I are both happy to let Lorie have this role as often as possible, although Elizabeth did become an excellent journalist while her mother was sick.
We reached Flagstaff around 6:30 and went to the hotel - or at least what we thought was our hotel. It turns out there are two Hampton hotels in Flagstaff and we had gone to the one on the east, but our reservation was for the west. We went six miles more down the road to that one and it was nicer, so we were very happy that we were "west"!
Grand Canyon is on our schedule for Saturday!
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