Knowing it would be a long day, we were up at 4:30 and leaving the house at 5:50. Our plan was an eight hour drive from home to Escalente, Utah. Now eight hours is about three hours more than I like,but we thought we could do it. Turned out to be eleven hours and a few minutes. A real bummer.
Our first stop was a little over two hours out at Cracker Barrel in Flagstaff, Arizona. Now Cracker Barrel has been our favorite breakfast stop for decades, but this one had gone woke. No rocking chairs, no checkerboards and no old stuff hanging on the walls. They did give us a special of buy one Old Timers breakfast and get one free. For that reason, and that reason alone, they get a pass this time.
The drive from Flagstaff to Page, Arizona was mostly through the Navajo Nation and is really sad to see what our government has done with the indigenous people. Did they get any rich farmland as found in say Iowa or Nebraska? No, they got the desert. All over the Southwest they got desert. No crops for them. On the plus side, they can make beautiful silver jewelry, colorful, blankets and artistic baskets and try to sell their wares from rundown stands along the highway.
The drive in from Page was pretty uneventful. A few construction projects slowed us down a bit and we took a couple of rests stops, including Glazier's Market in Kanab, Utah.
The reason for our trip to Escalante, Utah (population 822) was to spend three night in a Tiny House at Escalante Escapes. I found this place while poking around Utah on Google Earth. What a find. 370 square feet of luxury living. This place has everything you could ever want and much more. Kitchen has everything, including pods for the coffee machine. TV and mini-split AC in both the living room and bedroom and deck with gas BBQ. Everything is here. We will be back. Maybe for a week. I'll have some photos tomorrow.
In the meantime.
Having a little happy hour on the deck and we seem to have acquired a cat.
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