After a hot, fitful sleep hidden among other RV’s in a parking lot, we arose at sunrise, fuelled, at breakfast, then left Henderson at 6 a.m. That’s a real record for us!
After talking with Aunt Helen yesterday, it was decided that maybe we don’t really need to follow the Aunties and Uncle Vic… But, John still wants Florida to be the “first stop.” Anne was not anxious to spend another overheated night in the motorhome, and we hadn’t planned on some of the Auntie’s planned stops,(Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, and Cousins Lynn & Gary), basically because we knew we couldn’t keep up with them anyway… SO, a compromise was made. “We will stay on the I-40 to Tennessee, then take the I-75 south to Florida.”
When we got to the I-40, there was a lot of traffic and construction in Kingman, AZ, so, after a short nap to make up for lost sleep, we decided to use Old Route 66 across half of Arizona and pick it up again at the other end of Arizona. We had gone that far on it before and planned to do more “later,” so, “later” has become NOW. It intersects the I-75, and is a much more leisurely, pleasant drive.
Our only stops today were to have lunch at a lovely turnout along the highway (Haven’t done that since I was a kid!) and the Hackberry General Store. The General Store is a kind of outside museum whose main business is selling trinkets and being an original Route 66 building.
Here is the Hackberry General Store (in Hackberry, AZ, of course!)
We spent the night in Flagstaff.
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