It's Sunday night and we've pitched our tent alongside State Highway 261 a few miles outside of Mexican Hat, UT. The sun was kissing the horizon and the nearest campground was 50 miles away, sooooo....
We spent last night just outside Flagstaff, AZ at Pine Grove campground with Odie's parents, Larry & Pat, as well as his brother Ben and nephew Evan. We feasted on egg and tuna fish salad sandwiches, corn on the cob, chips and veggies, and washed it all down with some Peanut Butter stout from Belching Beaver Brewery. And for dessert Ben & Evan prepared perfect s'mores!
This morning Larry made some killer scrambled eggs and hash browns for breakfast and we hung out with everyone until about 10:30 before hitting the road. We headed north on Highway 89 and spent several hours exploring the Sunset Crater National Monument and surrounding Indian Ruins, probably a bit too long as we didn't head toward the Moab, UT area until after 3pm, which had been our aiming point for the day's end.
Around 4:30 we stopped at Tuuvi's Cafe in Tuba City, AZ, which is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation. After being seated I asked, "What kind of beer do you have?" Our waitress replied that all alcohol was illegal on Navajo and Hopi land. "Oh," I said. "Guess I'll take some water." Each of us ended up getting a Fry Bread Veggie Taco, which was more like a medium pizza with suspect veggies and beans on top...and yes, I think we'll both be paying for it tomorrow if not sometime tonight,..the drive after refueling/gorging at Tuuvi's was through some spectacular country at around 6,000' along state highways 160 & 163, the high point being the spectacular scenery of Monument Valley.
Our plan for tomorrow (a loose plan at best), is to get up early, wash down a nutrition bar with some of my awesome camp coffee, then pack up and head toward Bridges National Park and The Valley of the Gods National Monuments. And hopefully we'll actually be in a campground and not along side another as yet to be determined slab of asphalt. A shower would be nice as Odie is getting a bit ripe....I still smell like roses of course! Live large peeps...
Newton
We spent last night just outside Flagstaff, AZ at Pine Grove campground with Odie's parents, Larry & Pat, as well as his brother Ben and nephew Evan. We feasted on egg and tuna fish salad sandwiches, corn on the cob, chips and veggies, and washed it all down with some Peanut Butter stout from Belching Beaver Brewery. And for dessert Ben & Evan prepared perfect s'mores!
This morning Larry made some killer scrambled eggs and hash browns for breakfast and we hung out with everyone until about 10:30 before hitting the road. We headed north on Highway 89 and spent several hours exploring the Sunset Crater National Monument and surrounding Indian Ruins, probably a bit too long as we didn't head toward the Moab, UT area until after 3pm, which had been our aiming point for the day's end.
Around 4:30 we stopped at Tuuvi's Cafe in Tuba City, AZ, which is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation. After being seated I asked, "What kind of beer do you have?" Our waitress replied that all alcohol was illegal on Navajo and Hopi land. "Oh," I said. "Guess I'll take some water." Each of us ended up getting a Fry Bread Veggie Taco, which was more like a medium pizza with suspect veggies and beans on top...and yes, I think we'll both be paying for it tomorrow if not sometime tonight,..the drive after refueling/gorging at Tuuvi's was through some spectacular country at around 6,000' along state highways 160 & 163, the high point being the spectacular scenery of Monument Valley.
Our plan for tomorrow (a loose plan at best), is to get up early, wash down a nutrition bar with some of my awesome camp coffee, then pack up and head toward Bridges National Park and The Valley of the Gods National Monuments. And hopefully we'll actually be in a campground and not along side another as yet to be determined slab of asphalt. A shower would be nice as Odie is getting a bit ripe....I still smell like roses of course! Live large peeps...
Newton
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