Towards the Grand Canyon

We made a stop in Texas to get some lunch. We had been looking for some nice little place in a small town but the towns that we were going through were too small and didn’t really have anything to offer. We ended up stopping at the Big Texan in Amarillo. If you ate the 72 oz steak you got it free! I got a steak and Dan got BBQ. I liked mine a lot but I guess his was just ok. We also got a beer sampler and each tried a beer we hadn’t had before. One texas amber lager and one “light” dark beer. Both pretty tasty.

The rest of the drive was through New Mexico then Arizona. We saw more Indian rest stops than we could count all of which had the best prices and selection of products. Dan describes the landscape as roadrunner and Wile E Coyote (we just had a discussion about how to spell this and neither of us really knows). It was all very interesting and quite beautiful. There all were different textures and colors. A great thing about driving through this whole area was the speed limit on route 40 is 75mph which means that it’s commonly accepted that you can go 85 without a problem. The road was so flat and straight for the most part that sometimes you found yourself going even faster. Luckily this car doesn’t mind. I guess if it did we probably wouldn’t have gotten that fast.

We ended the day in Holbrook, AZ. An arbitrary stopping point that only put us a couple of hours away from the Grand Canyon the next day. The hotel was fine we showered and planned the next few days of accommodation for our trip (which in hindsight I kind of wish we hadn’t but more on that later). We had pizza hut because there weren’t really a lot of takeout choices and we didn’t feel like going to a restaurant. We got there to pick it up and the person had forgotten to put in our order so we got free breadsticks out of it and also a chance to go to the dollar store nearby. It was really the only store in walking distance. We got bugspray and some cans of food for our camping in the next few days.