Nick Did It Again . . .
This blog covers the first day of our trip back to Prescott, on Tuesday, the 27th of May.
(I know, I know. I’ll get caught up eventually.)
I’m going to get back on schedule with today’s trip and then catch up with our weekend reunion after we’re back in Prescott tomorrow.
Today was the long run of our two day trip back to Arizona and our rig. With our stops, the 826 miles normally takes us about 14 hours, so we were up at 5am to leave at 6. Last night after we got back to the hotel from our day on the Mississippi, I went back out and filled up, and also picked up a couple of roast beef sandwiches from the Arby’s across the street, a little change from our usual breakfast sandwiches.
We pulled out of the motel parking lot a few minutes after 6, so pretty much right on schedule and headed west on I-70. We had thought about staying an extra day, or even taking 3 days to get back to the rig rather than 2, but it looked like we’d miss our window of opportunity.
Like when we came up here last week, the weather forecast showed Partly Cloudy all along our trip. But if we left a day or two later, or took longer, than the forecast was for Heavy Thunderstorms all along the way.
So today was the day.
But as would happen, as we were traveling around the south of St. Louis, the forecasted “Partly Cloudy” started coming down in sheets, but luckily only for about 20 minutes, and then it cleared up.
When our daughter Brandi called about 7:15, we were hoping it was to say they were back in Houston. They were scheduled on a 5:40am flight from St. Louis back to Houston, but as it turned out, because of all the flooding in Houston, Hobby Airport was not letting anyone land. They finally got off the ground about 8:45 after sitting on the plane for three hours. But they made it home safely so it all worked out.
We stopped for lunch in Tulsa at the same Raisin’ Cane’s Chicken Fingers we ate at on our trip up to Illinois. Still great. Cane’s has become our new favorite chicken place.
Although long, the rest of the trip went smoothly, getting us into Amarillo a little before 9pm. We wanted to eat before we got to the motel, but had been debating where. We had thought about the Big Texas Steakhouse, but it was really too late for a big steak.
Nick Russell had been recommending the Coyote Bluff Café as a great hamburger place, and finding it was only one exit from our motel, we decided to give it a try.
And boy did Nick do it this time. Jan thinks it’s as good as Stomp’s down in Kemah, TX. Don’t know if I’d go quite that far but it’s close. Very close.
But you sure wouldn’t know it from the building. From the outside it looks like a dump.
And the inside kind of is too.
But the burgers were anything but. Plump 1/2 burgers, juicy and perfectly grilled and just delicious.
But unfortunately, after that great meal, it was on to the Motel from Hell.
But more about that tomorrow.
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Thought for the Day:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. – Jay Leno
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