Well, given that we didn’t have any solid plans for this cross country road trip, we had hoped for a little more exploration and flexibility than what we ended up with toward the end. We did have amazing luck considering how things have evolved over the last two months.
We have been introduced to and reminded of what we as Americans own in the form of National Parks, Monuments, Historical Sites. State and local parks have been great and unexpected surprises. We have some of the most incredible natural landscapes and features to call ours, and we are eternally grateful to those before us who had the foresight and intelligence to deem it important and necessary to protect these resources, not only for themselves at the time but more importantly for future generations.
Our route took us through Sedona, but the entire town was shut down in the interest of social distancing and isolating the virus. We discovered that this was somewhat of a hotspot and were disappointed, but decided that we’d come back another time to explore this beautiful part of the world.
Since we really didn’t have a plan at this point, we decided to power on, and the road took us up into Flagstaff and onto I-40 west. We thought we’d check out some of the campgrounds that showed up on our app, however every one we passed by was closed.
We pushed on, of course turning off I-40 and onto Historic Route 66, because it was there!
And we ended up for the night in Kingman, AZ. It was a less than perfect location, but we were able to have a pizza delivered and do things like much needed laundry and showers, so it evened out. It was also fortuitous, cause the mountains we’d just left got a dumping of snow, and I was extremely relieved that we dodged that in the RV.
This was our last stop in Arizona. Tomorrow would take us into Nevada and a little closer to home.
John & Armen On The Road 