Road Trip East 2014

Slugger and I had a hard time leaving on Tuesday! We SO enjoyed our long vacation in CA with Dad and Tuck!! But alas, I have a job and the grass wasn't getting any shorter so we packed up and head out. It was a very uneventful drive, thank goodness!! It was also very fast. We got home 2.5 hours quicker than we drove West 5 weeks and 2 days before. We had NO rain which might have been the difference maker. We also didn't stop as often. He slept and slept so I didn't stop at every rest area, unless I needed too, or it'd been more than 2 hours since we had last stopped. I didn't time that or anything, it's just the way it worked.

So let's see, are there any stories to share? Gas was cheap! I paid $3.79 in Flagstaff because it was dark and I knew the gas station was there. Other than that it was $3.17-$3.33. Not bad!!! I am pretty sure I spent at least $20 less than I did on the way out! Maybe it just seems like it.

My first stop was just inside the AZ border for gas and break. We followed a truck in to the truckstop. He was carrying tires...

In Flagstaff, I got off on Business 40 thinking that's where there'd be gas. No, just dark, dark roads that I swear were in the forest. To reinforce that, I saw a deer!! Crazy.

We stopped at a rest area that was very nice at about 11pm PST. I wasn't ready to sleep yet though so we kept going. I knew there was another rest area in a little over an hour that I've slept at before and the timing would be perfect. IT WAS CLOSED!! BUT, luckily right there at the same weird (roundabouts??) exit, there is a casino and truckstop. So, we slept at the truckstop. We weren't the only ones. They really should tell you at the one before if the next one is closed! Dad looked it up and he said it looks like it's closed permanently :( Bummer. Will have to research before next year!!

I guess nothing happened yesterday or I was too tired to notice or remember!! Just glad we made it, safe and well. Slugger once again made an excellent copilot.

Slugger is lying next to me on the couch. I think he misses Tuck.

And now we have a week to prepare to go back to school. By "prepare" I mean do nothing :)