Joe has listened to a friend at work rave about a place called Rocky Point (Puerto Penasco) Mexico for a few years now. Our vacation week was coming and we had planned to take the children to Lake Powell for the Meteor Shower in mid August. We looked at places to stay and found a good deal on a two bedroom condo with a pull-out sofa bed with ground floor access to the pool and beach and we began to dream...
It is 15 hours or so by car from here to there (in addition to stops which our family needed lots of). Some funny memories of the trip down...We passed 4 semis of chickens not long after crossing into very hot Arizona. The white chickens feather blew around the road like it was fulfilling the phrase, "When it snows in ____________"
We enjoyed listening to an audio book when the Veggietale movie did not hold the driver's interest any longer. Everyone from our four year old to our thirteen year old listened (without getting bored!) to Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt.
In Arizona, we neared Flagstaff at twilight. Joe was hoping to push on to Phoenix or even Gila Bend. We had no reservation and I was tired and so we found a Rodeway Inn. We should have been clued in by the security man walking the parking lot, or the sign below in the sparsely furnished room, or the moldy smell and the squishy carpet right out of the bathroom. We stayed in probably an unsavory part of town. Still, we had real beds to sleep in, we ate a simple breakfast of muffins and got back on the road fairly early the next day.
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