March 17, 2018 Utah

Day 9: Saturday March 17, 2018:

It’s now around midnight in Dallas and what a long day.  I walked this morning, thank goodness, then breakfast then on the road at 7:30am Gallup time.  The drive really wasn’t as bad as I’d anticipated.  

We stopped in Tucumcari, NM for lunch at Del’s along Historic Route 66 and driving down that street was like driving back in time 60 years.  Del’s opened in 1956.  It was a neat experience.  We also read up on all the interesting movies, mostly westerns, that were filmed in or where Tucumcari is referenced. 

We got gas outside of Amarillo then drove through a rain storm and enjoyed a beautiful rainbow in Wichita Falls. 

Then a quick stop at a Dairy Queen in Henrietta, TX then to Fort Worth to pick up Hooper.  We stayed and shared some stories of our trip then got back in the car around 10:45 and cruised into the driveway around 11:45.  The beginning odometer read 35,536 and the ending read 38,773, for a total of 3,237 miles. 

This was a trip for the ages and just look at all the swag. 

Swag!

 I can’t wait to go back and I don’t want to go back to work…ever.

Did I mention that Nick and I plan now, to retire in Utah?  Just looking for the least Mormon suburb we can find - nothing against Mormons, it's just that we're Methodist.