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Today we started out having breakfast at the famous "Coffee Pot" Restaurant....I say it's famous because the parking lot is always overflowing with cars AND there are tons of autographed pictures from celebrities that have eaten there. Some of the celebrities include Elvis, Matt LaBlanc and Melissa Etheridge. There are 101 omelette varieties on the menu. Kim had a #3 (3 cheeses) and I had a #10 (ham, cheese, green peppers and onions). I wonder what Elvis ate? Hmmm....they DID have a peanut butter, jelly and banana omelette on the menu....coincidence???? We then drove about 25-30 miles to Jerome, AZ which is a national historic landmark....a very famous "ghost town". It was known for it's copper mining operations and it's said that over 1 billion dollars of ore was mined in just over 70 years. The ... read more

Today Kim and I drove from Las Vegas, NV to Sedona, AZ to begin our 2007 Fall vacation. As we drove over Hoover Dam we noticed that the Hoover Dam bypass has made some progress. The new route will be quite a distance above the Hoover Dam as you can see by the pictures Kim took as we drove over Hoover Dam. The drive from Las Vegas to Flagstaff was pretty uneventful. Not too much traffic and great weather. The route to Sedona (SR 89A) is a beautiful drive. Many pine trees, lots of grass, wildflowers and shady areas on the road. After living in Las Vegas so long....it was weird to see so much greenery, weeds and trees. As you descend into the beautiful canyon....the next thing you know....there are red rocks and mountains everywhere. ... read more

Well, we made it to Las Vegas. We left Phoenix early on the morning of September 25 and drove through Sun City, Wickenburg and then through the desert to Kingman AZ. The scenery was wonderful. There were beautiful mountains, saguaros, cholla and joshua trees. The road was a 2 lane highway for most of the drive through Arizona and there were passing lanes only occasionally so we pretty much were stuck in a pack of cars for most of the morning. Then in Kingman, AZ we were back to a divided highway all the way to Las Vegas. We drove over Hoover Dam and noticed that they are building a new highway in the area. I believe in the near future that no traffic will be allowed over the Dam. Right now no commercial vehicles are ... read more

On September 23rd Kim and I took a nice side trip to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. There are wonderful exhibits explaining the plants, animals and geology of Arizona and the Sonora Desert. The museum is located in the mountains on the west side of Tucson. We drove through Saguaro National Park on the way....what breathtaking scenery. The back roads were very challenging to drive....curvy, swervy, and narrow. And did I mention NO guard rails? YIKES! Even though this is called a Museum....that's a little misleading. It's an outside 'living' museum with live animal exhibits in their natural habitat, hiking trails with cactus gardens....not very much of it is inside. We saw everything from hummingbirds to big horn sheep. We hiked around about 80% of the entire park which is pretty impressive in 100 degree heat ... read more

We had a long travel day today. We drove from OKC to Roswell, NM which is roughly 460 miles but a lot of the day we were on a small highway that went through a lot of small towns in Texas and New Mexico. So we didn't drive over 60 m.p.h. for a lot of the trip. The scenery totally changed today....a lot of WIDE open spaces, ranches, windmills, cows and trains. We left OKC around 6:30am and arrived in Roswell around 2:00pm. We ate lunch at the "Nuthin' Fancy Diner" in Roswell which is famous around here because President George W Bush got some carry out and did a campaign stop here during the last presidential campaign. They had a lot of pictures of "W" and his visit and an autographed menu. They also have ... read more