day 9: 1270 miles from home
by sinker
8 months, 1 week ago
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Day nine was mostly a driving day. A slow emergence from our hotel and a very hot drive through the desert (miscalculation of the trip: we had to take the same route as yesterday's Hoover Dam episode, but this time the traffic jam lasted over an hour in the mid-day sun). As we came closer to Flagstaff, Arizona, however, the heat of the desert gave way to cooler mountain air and, soon, snow was even visible clinging to the ground in the shadows of the evergreen trees.
A few turns later and we found ourselves in front of a glowing fire in a stone-and-wood cabin, in the presence of friends who had been having their own road-trip adventure, all of us eager to tell the best stories of their trips (they won, however, having been stuck in the mud twice in Navajo land, towed out each time by the same kind-hearted Indian).
The Grand Canyon tomorrow, then a turn towards home.
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