Monday, December 31, 2007

Route 66

The journey to Arizona took 3 days and except for the Texas Panhandle was pretty uneventful. It seems Texas is one of the states that has run out of "salt" for their roads because one second we were flying down Interstate 66 on clear roads and the next second we were in the Texas panhandle and the road was totally snowpacked/icy and traffic speed slowed to a crawl.

The famous "route 66" road runs parallel to the interstate and for some unknown reason it was snow and ice free and clear as a whistle. So we did what you not supposed to do and went right over the grass onto good old 66. We weren't the only ones to do that so we were very worried about doing it. We would once in awhile head back to the interstate but eventually would go back again the 66. That lasted about 1 1/2 hours. Eventually the interstate cleared up and we stayed on that all the way to Arizona.

Yesterday it got up to 60! Felt great. It's like playing house down here right now. We'll in our new place and have to figure out where to put everything. I also have to figure out how to remember where anything is. I've also forgotten where things are in Mesa so that will take me some time to jog my memory.

Can't beat this place though, photos and more "slantings" will come later.

1 comment:

Anne said...

Way to go Dad! Route 66 sounds like it was great. Glad you got down there safe and are enjoying settling back into the "community"! Talk to you soon.