Days 28, 29, 30 Santa Fe NM, Grand Canyon, Moab UT

  Moab, Utah, United States
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Are we there yet? Lordy!

Miles Driven: Upwards of 7800
Time In Car: Upwards of 150 hours

Tourist Activities:
Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac Ranch Texas

Strolled Santa Fe's market areas

Grand Canyon National Park at sunset (if you worship Mother Nature, than the Grand Canyon is your cathedral)

Grand Canyon Sunset

Grand Canyon

Drove through Monument Valley

Monument Valley

Arches National Park

Arches National Park

On the iPod:
New Mexico: All of the latino/spanish language music we could find, which wasn't very much
Arizona: Eagles, with a special listen to 'Take It Easy' as we were driving through Winslow AZ
Utah: Couldn't really come up with any Utah flavored music so we put on a general playlist. Oddly the first song that came on this morning was Alan Parsons Project's 'Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)' with the following lyrics (we hate to be sappy, but they got to us):
'The traveller is always leaving town
He never has the time to turn around
And if the road he's taken isn't leading anywhere
He seems to be completely unaware
The traveller awaits the morning tide
He doesn't know what's on the other side
But something deep inside of him
Keeps telling him to go
He hasn't found a reason to say no'

Culinary Experiences: We found ourselves in a dreary diner in dreary Tucumcari, AZ for breakfast. Looking for something...easy, Connie orders the Chicharrone Breakfast Burrito (egg, cheese, green chile). Seems OK, right? Well...the chicharrone part of the equation is fried pig skin. It was CRUNCHY...and not in a good way. Blech. The idea still turns her stomach.

Wild Animals: Elk, hares, sasquatch

You Know You're In The West When: You see a sign on the interstate that reads "watch for (sketch of elk) for the next 64 miles".

Magazines Read: 0
Books Read: 0
Audiobooks Played: 1/10th of one
Roadtrip Games Invented: 2...But we can't disclose the details in public.

Last Gas Price: $4.69/gallon...for the cheap stuff. This was right outside the Grand Canyon and when you're the only kid on the block you can charge whatever you want.

Whew!: The weather has drastically changed for us. We had to put jeans on for the first time since May 19th and were relieved (shocked, as we're sure you are) they still fit.

Thanks for coming along.
Bob and Connie (aka The Sharks...we're always moving forward)