Day 14 - Gallup, New Mexico to Williams, Arizona

The area we travelled into today, 220 miles west across the state line into Arizona, was subject to a red warning of severe rain, thunderstorms, hail (the size of baseballs!), high winds and, most unseasonably, tornadoes!! Thankfully, we only got the first two on the list of doom. It certainly rained (hard) and there were some pretty impressive flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder when we arrived in Williams.

There is really not much of old Route 66 left on this pretty barren stretch so we largely travelled down Interstate 40 to get the journey done as quickly as possible.

En route we stopped in Winslow, Arizona:

I was delighted to find that the coffee shop opposite THE corner has rediscovered the recipe for the White Cow Milkshake 😋 first sampled on our trip 4 years ago but, apparently lost after a change of ownership 2 years ago:

We ventured into a very soggy Williams to visit Safeway for some supplies, top up with gas and to visit Pete's famous Route 66 Gas Station Museum ...... but it was shut.

Chilli-con-carne awaits in the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel restaurant tonight so the day will end very much on a high 🌶

Our original plan was to spend only one night at the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel and to move on tomorrow to the El Tovar hotel overlooking the south rim of the Grand Canyon. Sadly, due to flooding a couple of months ago and a ruptured water pipe, the El Tovar is temporarily closed and so we have two nights here.

We are now 8 hours behind the UK.


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