Route 66 Road Trip: Day Seven, journey home

All good things must come to an end...and yes, when I'm done with this narrative, I will post pictures!

This was the first hotel of the trip which offered us continental breakfast, so we took advantage of it. My friend walked to the buffet and I found us a table with two cups of coffee. I found a nice spot by the window and as I set the cups down, I noticed that the cars in the parking lot had fresh snow on top of them. Huh....and there goes a snow blower. Yikes! That can't be a good sign.
Now, I would like to point out that I love to extend a road trip. In fact on my Facebook, I have 25 odd things about me, and #6 is "I always intend to come home a day later than I tell my husband." But in this case, we were needing to leave. So we California girls mused our options over a second cup of coffee. No....no tire chains, that would be silly! So we did the responsible things and ask the girl at the desk if the roads were ok, she said "sure" so we took off.

The first task was getting the snow off the car. No...no ice scraper, that would be silly! So I used a postcard from the room which was clearly taken in summer and I think the smiling man on the front thought this was an odd use for the card. Fortunately it was soft fluffy snow and came off easily. But when I opened the car, I saw there was some snow on the inside....guess I really should have closed the sun roof all the way. Oops!

So we headed onto the road, which was obviously going to take us a lot longer to drive this time. I noticed a "W" next to the gear shift, and figured that must mean "winter" and pushed it just to be safe. We put on an appropriate song "Stupid Girls" and aimed for the highway. 56 miles at 30 miles an hour....beautiful scenery! Nice morning, sunny and bright....but slow. When we got to I-40, I thought I'd get some gas in Williams before we got going. I didn't realize it was downhill...which I slid down. When the car stopped at the bottom of that hill, we examined our options. But we ran out of time because in the rear view mirror was a snow plow who was not going 30 miles and hour and I wasn't sure what would happen if we were in his way when he got down the hill....so we tried to turn left and after a couple of misfires, we got into a gas station.

Surprisingly, we got up the hill easier than we went down and hit the road. The rest of the drive was pretty uneventful, we giggled over our trip and planned the next one. We did have one last adventure. By the time we got to California I knew where I was going and turned off the navigator. Oops...we ended up having one more little detour, which was pretty funny! But got home safe and sound.

I'm going to work on the pictures now.

Thanks for sharing this trip with me!

Karen