Unquiet Desperation

Yesterday was a long day.

We took 93 from Henderson and drove over Hoover Dam. Hoover Dam, while amazing on foot, was a pain because the traffic was at a crawl for miles before we finally hit it because…get this…no one controls the flow of traffic or pedestrians over the dam. No no…the pedestrians are not flowing over the dam, but they are going to the visitor center and taking pictures and, in general, slowing down traffic. I’m glad I don’t have to make that commute every day.

We stopped off in Flagstaff at 5pm for dinner at a Crackerbarrel, and while there we took the opportunity to revise our luggage strategy. When you have two cars jammed full of the things you could not live without, it makes fro a rough night when you need to move some of those items into the hotel.  The trick is to pack several people’s things into a single bag, so you’re not taking everyone’s bags up at night. Major savings when you roll into your hotel at…

…wait for it…

2:08 AM.

Losing an hour because of time zones is just awesome. Not.

Today’s plan is to take a slightly shorter day so we can reset our clocks. Normally, we like to be up and out by 8am.  Since we’ve been gitting in at 2am, that’s just not possible. The idea is that we go for around 434 to Elk City, OK today, and get there by dinnertime or slightly later. We let the kids go swimming, relax a little, and get to be early. The next day, we do Elk City to St. Louis, and the following day St. Louis to Cleveland.

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