Lots of driving (Day 1)

(This was actually supposed to be a post from yesterday but for some reason it never posted. There will be another one today from today's adventures)

Hey everyone! Sorry for not posting earlier but it's been a long day of driving and we're even done yet! This morning we got a somewhat early start and headed out to breakfast at this local country hippie cafe in Joshua Tree, right outside of Joshua Tree National Park. Its called Crossroads Cafe and it was so awesome. It looked awesome and had great food. I had the Vegan Sunrise and the medium fresh squeezed OJ. If you are ever in the area go to this place. They serve meat as well as Mike was able to get a meal which had eggs, toast, 4 strips of bacon and potatoes. The picture you see above is actually from the girl's restroom. It had Native American style paintings on the walls with a rock like color and the ceiling is a blue sky with painted clouds.

Upon finishing breakfast we needed to get a move on the road, so we went through Joshua Tree all the way out to the 10E. Mike loved that long and winding road. I had ended up falling asleep during that portion of the car ride because of winding but woke up on the last portion of it. We took he 10E all the way to the 17N, after of course finding out we could have taken a better route with much nicer scenery, Oh well now we know for next time. Once we got near Phoenix, we got out for lunch at a local Carl's Jr. Then we were headed up to Prescott for J & G Sales where Mike could pick up things for his guns. From there we stopped at a local Starbucks to relax for a bit since the only place left was to go a hotel in Flagstaff.

I'll tell you this, I did not know that Prescott and Flagstaff where on the top of mountains. It led for beautiful scenery and lower temperatures, woohoo! We arrived into Flagstaff, grabbed a room and found out that there was a local brewery/restaurant called Beaver Street Brewery. We hit that as soon as we ould tear ourselves away from the tv where the most recent episodes of Deadliest Catch were on and they were showing Phil Harris being in the hospoital. It was a hard thing to watch. Really good food and drinks here as well. We also took a portion of Route 66 to get to it, but on the way to Route 66 we were thwarted by 2 trains coming either way. Lucky for us they weren't that long. What an exciting day.

And because the sun came up sooo amazingly early up here in Flagstaff, I had decided to go back to writing this since my phone ate my post and I didn't know about it until sooner.

-------------

Also I have a question/request from my readers, when you look at the right handside, do you see a slideshow of my pictures (like the ones found in my folder through Picasa) or are they simply random images. Via my preview I get other people's random images and I just wanted to see if that was a default setting on my account. Thanks all.