We were supposed to leave yesterday, Monday, but we were having some plumbing done which turned into more than we thought. So we got on the rod this morning at 6:30am, stopped in Benson for $4.66 gas, the McD’s for our usual celebratory sausage muffin breakfast. Traffic was smooth all the way on I-10 through Tucson and Phoenix and then turned on 303 and then Rt 93 which is our theme this trip. Rt 93 goes all the way from here to Canada via AZ, NV, ID, MT. We have been in the southern part but not way up north.
It was toasty all day and the goal is to get to Las Vegas, get a hotel tonight and then cam the next night when the temperatures will be cooler. It was 98 to 100 most of the day and when we landed in Las Vegas it was 103, so the hotel plan was sound.
We stopped for lunch in Kingman at a Jersey Mikes (sub chain). Nice clear day with beautiful mountain scenery, a nice drive by Hoover Dam and Lake Mead (which was pretty low). We stopped just across the Nevada line (from Arizona) at Boulder City where the workers who built Hoover Dam stayed when it was being built. A lot of nice old motels. We will come back and stay when the weather is cooler.
Dinner tonight a few miles away at BJ’s Restaurant and Brew House. Tomorrow we get north far enough to get 70’s temperatures.
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