Flagstaff Frenzy
06.04.2010
90 °F
We arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona tonight at 8:30 PM after a long day of driving and seeing things to find out that this weekend is "free Grand Canyon" weekend, so the usual $25/car entrance fee is waived all weekend. Add to this that Arizona public schools are out for the summer and you have a scene in which people are standing in hotel parking lots animatedly discussing the hotel rates. There's just no way around it. But we are here and we are going to see this place.
Backtracking several days, our last post was from Texas. We stayed in Shamrock, TX for the night, then steamed across the Texas panhandle to New Mexico and slept that night at an absurd KOA in downtown Albuquerque, just off of the interstate. It was fine until we went to...ok, until we tried to go to sleep. It was then that we noticed that interstate traffic quiets down, and that sleeping under a lit interstate billboard makes your tent as light as early morning. We got up this morning, visited the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, drove out of Albuq, and then spent the day pleasantly driving through the Western half of New Mexico and then through Arizona.
