First Pix & Trip Notes

(Addition notes appear below slideshow.) Here's almost 20 uncaptioned photos from today.  Our little netbook is misbehaving so we will wait until our return to caption the,  Bottom Line: Great Road Trip Today and The Highlander ROCKS!



Thursday morning dawned nice and WARM here in Williams--27 degrees!  That's a heat wave compared to what they have been enduring for the past week.  We met Alan and Sandra yesterday and they are great owners for this property.  They are hard at work remodeling each room with meticulous care.  Our Room #3 is the Marilyn Monroe Room. It has very nice euro styling and an endearing simplicity.  It is very clean and thoughtfully decorated.  Susun loved the bathtub and I guess that's teh finest compliment you can pay a place.

Yesterday, we took one Route 66 photo and our agenda this morning includes taking some more of those iconic photos for her upcoming 66th birthday.  We hope to get out of town by 11 am today.  It took us 6.5 hours to drive from Rimrock to Williams yesterday but that included a long detour over through Drake and Hell Canyon.  That was probably one hour.  Chances are it will only take us five hours for the return trip.  We'd like to be home by 5 pm.  Here are the statistics of our trip yesterday according to our GPS which we turned on at the Jerome Fire Station.

Miles from Jerome Fire Station   78.5
Total time actually moving         3:25
Time stopped                           2:06
Maximum speed                      48.4
Average speed while moving     22.9
Total overall avg. speed            14.2
Maximum elevation                7,357
Overnight elevation                6,700'

Distance from Rimrock to Jerome Fire Station: 26.2

Total distance traveled:  104.7 miles
Photos taken:                     1600

Even though 1600 sounds like a lot of photos, 1536 of those were taken automatically every 10 seconds by the GoPro hood cam.  So, we really didn't take too many photos ourselves, at least by comparison to other road trips of note.  Maybe we can make up for that today.

Well, that's about all until we return to Second Chance Ranch.  Have a great day & Many Cheers, jp