Route 66

After 7 days of hanging curtains, repairing several stools damaged in shipping, changing a few light bulbs & hunting for just the right bookcase for a certain wall, Donna and I are on our way home. Hunting bookcases took us into nearly every consignment and or thrift store in Santa Fe before we finally hit paydirt at a little, one-man operation in corner lot just about a mile from La Casa de Sally.

While in Santa Fe we also ate at two different Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Restaurants, breakfast at the Tune-Up Cafe¹ an lunch at Back Road Pizza.

Tonight we are in Flagstaff and the drive was mostly I-25 to I-40 with a couple of forays onto Old Route 66 for some geocaching and sight seeing. On the last bit, from outside Winslow to the hotel, we took a lovely back road for the last 61 miles. According Google maps this route was about 13 miles and 20 minutes longer, but the time might have actually been less than taking I-40 in. This is because unlike our last day driving into Santa Fe a week ago we were not caught by surprise with a construction slow down. Arizona had a sign a hundred miles from Flagstaff letting us know the road dropped to 1 lane from 2 at mile post 205, so we got off a long way from there and looped into our hotel. And right now looking out the Holiday Inn Express’s window we can see I-40 and traffic is creeping.