June 12, 2010
Final time: 4:57pm (Mountain Time) Final Mileage: 7,058.6 Driver: Colleen Song: Mama, You Got A Daughter (John Lee Hooker) And it’s a wrap! Now, we’re turnin’ this car around and heading to Vegas, baby!!
June 12, 2010
Time: 4:42pm (Mountain Time) Mileage: 7,041.2 Driver: Colleen Song: Sunshine Day (Brady Bunch) A quick trip by Laughlin and heading for the finish line …
June 12, 2010
Time: 10:25am Mileage: 6,634.7 Driver: Colleen Song: Expressway to your Heart (Soul Survivors) There is scenery everwhere! The rain has stopped, the roads are pretty clear and the rock climbs to the sky in shades of red , yellow and brown. And the plains are green from the rain – in contrast to the red […]
June 12, 2010
FOUR CORNERS: NEW MEXICO, UTAH, COLORADO & ARIZONA But it’s Navajo Nation territory. And it’s under construction … the monument anyway. But the native craft stalls are open, and we talked to vendors, ate fry bread and shopped our way around the booths. Amazing craftsmanship – sand painting, pottery, jewelry making. And everyone wanted to […]
June 12, 2010
Time: 9:28am Mileage: 6,630.7 Driver: Colleen Song: Bluer Than Blue (Michael Johnson) New Mexico, we hardly knew ya …. just a quick four miles of asphalt. But you can’t beat the scenery!
June 12, 2010
Time: 8:54am Mileage: 6,591.9 Driver: Colleen Song: Wild String (Moody Blues) Rain, rain, go away … some pretty good thunder and lighting, too. Cortez, Colorado gave us a lovely rainbow. For a few minutes. Now the rain is back .. fortunately, though, the roads are pretty clear. Long stretches into the horizon as we make […]
June 12, 2010
Our last day. We’re heading south through Utah. Roughly 700 miles left. We’ve completed our national tour of McDonalds, now having stopped for coffee in Moab, UT. It’s been raining steadily since we left this morning. Forecast indicates it should break up around Four Corners but still be cloudy. What my dough faced Northern European […]