Devall Travels

Once we were away from the motel the plan was to get breakfast and also get a picture of Joe & Aggie's in daylight. Sadly someone had parked blocking a large chunk of the mural on the wall so we couldn't get a clear shot of the whole thing. The other side of the parking lot had a Holbrook mural. Fuelling the car took $36 and the range on the onboard computer went from 56 miles to 505. When we picked it up the average mpg was showing 19.5. Sticking roughly to speed limits (sometimes you have to floor it!!) and we now have it showing over 33mpg to the titchy US gallon.  The trains we had heard so much about weren't too bad. They ran all night but apart from few hoots, the earplugs weren't needed. We headed up R66 to the freeway and headed east and had breakfast at the Hopi Travel centre. We opted for the BK. The breakfast croissant was filling. Here we turned left onto SR77 into the Navajo Nation and headed north east to...

Over the years on trips we have had a session where we "bag" places. Usually countries but in the US it wiull have to be states. It's using a hunting phrase where they would "bag a tiger".... It means also slightly making a detour to include somewhere otherwise missed. In that case only one of the "bags" will be genuine as the other actually requires crossing the state border to access where we are going. In the past Steve Hazlehurst and I bagged Slovenia on the way from Venice to Salzburg.  A short dogleg across the border satisfied the "bagging" criteria. The first will be to "bag" Utah.  To get into Monument Valley will mean a trip across the border then a quick right turn onto the Navajo lands.   Bagging Utah The next will be across the other side of the state when we come down along the Colorado River, a quick detour into California and back to Arizona. Bagging California See what happens!! ...