Silver Threads Series - Road Trip - Day Six

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​Greetings my friends, the past few days have been so busy that I haven’t had time to write at all. Thank you for your patience. I’ve shared a bunch of pictures but I’ve never really had time to myself where I could gather my thoughts. I’m now in my car again with my hubby and we have about four hours left until we reach the Grand Canyon.
We’ll be stopping at the South Rim and we’re basically staying long enough to take a few pictures and just to say we’ve been there.
We just passed by Hoover Dam again as we’re travelling back east from Las Vegas. Other than spending time with my daughter, Chelsea, and my friend Trina, the Hoover Dam was the highlight of our trip so far. I wish we had time to stop again. I wish we had time to spend a couple of days at the Hoover Dam. I had no idea its majesty would affect me the way it did.
Other than that, the trip has been rather peaceful. We’ve slept well notwithstanding the need to switch hotels from our original reservations two times so far, and we’ll have switched two more times on the way home.
The mountains here are breathtaking, but brown and desolate. I’m used to green. Even the mountains out east are green and lush with rock outcroppings. These are basically just rocks. Not much lives out here in this desolate and dry climate. I’m sure the people who have chosen to live here enjoy living here but I can’t imagine wanting to live here. I’m ready to go home to my beautiful green Michigan with thousands of lakes and water in every direction.
But first, we will spend a few days at my brother-in-law’s house in Mesa, Arizona. Another place we’ve never been. This is the trip of a lifetime and I’m pretty sure this is the only time we’ll drive all the way out here and back.
Clayton and I travel well together and are very compatible in most aspects of life but I think we’re happiest at home. I wish I could gather all my friends and family around me so we could all visit each other and still go home and sleep in our own beds.
We just stopped at a Shell gas station because I drink too much water and Diet Coke and they had the cleanest bathroom I’ve seen so far on this whole trip, other than our hotels and Trina’s house. I can’t even express how much I appreciate that. Silly thing to be happy about maybe, but sometimes it’s the little things that make a difference in the enjoyment of your experience. Thank you, Shell station on 93 South an hour & a half south of Las Vegas. You are to be commended.
Backtracking to what we’ve done so far on our trip, in a previous blog post I told you about our nightmare hotel in St. Charles, Missouri, so I won’t talk more about that. The following day we arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma to hang out with our son, C.J. and I’m pretty sure I haven’t shared those pictures with you. I’ll include that picture at the bottom of this blog post. We also had a relatively uneventful stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico just stopping through on our way from Tulsa to Las Vegas. We’ll be doing the same thing on our way through from Mesa to Oklahoma City on our way home.
Okay, I’m going to pause my commentary for now until after we go to the Grand Canyon. I’ll get some other work done for now. See you on the other side.
Greetings from the other side. The Grand Canyon was incredible but I still think the Hoover Dam was the highlight of the trip so far, and probably will remain since we don’t have much else that we’re going to be doing for the rest of the trip.
I was just telling Clayton that I’ll probably lock myself in a room at his brother’s house and let him hang out with his brother while I get some writing done. I’d like to actually get this book outlined and maybe be able to actually start sharing real chapters instead of just research and pre-writing. I’m sure you’ll appreciate that.
On that note, I’ll start working on that now while I’m driving. Goodbye for now. -Julie

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