A quiet day in Williams, Arizona

Joan and "The King"

With tomorrow our getaway day from Arizona we spent our time close to home today.

This morning I went for a 3-mile walk to downtown Williams and back and just about the time I was thinking of calling my buddy Kim, he called me and we talked for nearly 45 minutes while I walked the old Route 66. Nice to hear a voice from back home.

Joan did laundry and I began the process of securing the trailer for the week it will be in storage here at the RV park in Williams.

I used to own a 1950 Ford

We are headed to northern California in the morning to visit our two eldest sons and oldest grandchild, Brittany near Santa Cruz. We will also visit my sister-in-law Barbara as well as my cousin Cynthia.

On the way back we’re going to make a quick stopover in Las Vegas before returning here to pick up the trailer and continue our journey to Tucson and my Navy reunion. Today was also the two-week point in our journey west. At times it seems like we just left and other times it seems a lot longer than two weeks.

Joan finally got a chance today to catch up with her favorite soap opera, Days of our Lives. After that ended we decided to take a little walk downtown Williams and sample all the Route 66 gift stores they have.

We ended up buying a couple souvenirs, but we didn’t help the Williams economy much.  The town is located on the historic Route 66 and they have done a good job preserving the 1950s-1960s feel of that time period.

After checking out the shops we made a stop at Dairy Queen for an ice cream treat for later in the evening.

Joan has done a great job of planning our meals and tonight we cleaned up most of the leftovers because when we shut down the trailer tomorrow there will be no refrigeration in the trailer so anything perishable will have to be thrown out or carried to California as gifts to our relatives.

Tonight’s dinner included, hamburger patties, cole slaw, potato salad, the end of the sourdough bread, zucchini and we split the last frozen twice baked potato. It was all good.

There was not much left and we have only eaten out twice and that was with our friend Terry and Sue in Albuquerque. Part of the savings of traveling with an RV is that you can eat in and eat healthy while on the road.

For those of you who are regularly following this blog, there will not likely be another posting until Sunday night as we will be involved with California family until then. If I get a chance I’ll put something up but you won’t miss much if you stay away until Sunday.

We appreciate the interest that so many of you have in our travels.