Today we slept in till 5:30 AM. I know a whole 30 minutes from our previous times, but it can make a difference. We were on the road headed out of Albuquerque by 6:30 AM which was fine since it was only going to be a 6-hour drive to the Grand Canyon. Because it was only going to be a 6-hour drive, and we couldn’t check into the lodge till 4:00PM we made a few stops along the way. The first stop was for gas and breakfast. We stopped at a Love’s which had Carl Junior’s. Jim got a breakfast burrito, which he said was pretty good, way better than McDonald’s breakfast burrito. I just had a standard sausage biscuit. With the car fueled and breakfast in hand we were on the road again. The landscape along the drive was much more interesting as we headed out into the desert, and more along the lines of what I was expecting to see. I think I was subconsciously comparing landscapes to the cartoon landscapes in the movie Cars. (Disney strikes again.) To get to the Arizona...
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