9:15am- Left the hotel. Dropped another $30 on roulette, lost it all and packed up the car with our tails between our legs. Stopped for gas at $3.92 a gallon! Can't beat that. $25 thanks to our friend Cee and her gift of a gas card.
9:29am- Our new mascot Bumblebuss the Dragon busts out into a break dance in happiness. He loves being a part of the family now.
We really wanted to stop at the Grand Canyon but had to scrap that idea when we saw how far out of the way it was. But how excited were we when we realized we could check out the Hoover Dam! I didn't realize how awesome it was going to be but it was pretty impressive. The one thing I love about driving across this country is that it makes you see how massive the world around you is. I really wanted to roll a penny down the side of the dam but Paula told me it was probably a bad idea. Good call lady friend.
10:30am- left Hoover Dam and back on the road. All this desert is starting to look the same.
10:45am- Welcome to Arizona. Thanks to my maps fun facts I learned that L.A. has more people living in it than the entire state of Arizona. That is still baffling my mind.
12:28pm- Paula has started doing algebra. I don't know what it is about road trips but whenever we go on one Paula immediately wants to put our mileage/distance into a math problem. I've told her it's a simple miles to destination divided by miles per hour. She insists that it must be made into an Algebra problem where we have to solve for X.
I also told her the GPS completely calculates all of this for us and our math is pointless and unnecessary. Nerd.
1:42pm- Time for a pit stop in Flagstaff. Flagstaff looks huge on the map but in reality looks like a town with one stop sign. We filled up for only $3.89 a gallon, total $40. I'm loving this downward trend in gas prices. Fingers crossed it continues!
2:03pm- We also decided to grab something quick to eat. This town had a Del Taco and we had our last taste of tacos with french fries. Whoever invented Del Taco should win some sort of Nobel Prize for awesome combinations. I love that I can get my two favorite things in one place. So long Del Taco. You've been good to me...but not to my waistline.
2:51pm- We have officially entered Navajo Country. All I see now are billboards advertising turquoise jewelry and moccasins. No, seriously. I feel like Navajo ancestors are rolling in their graves. Wig Wam.
3pm- Just passed a warning sign for a 'blowing dust area'. What the hell is that? Is that like a mini tornado? Don't tell hypochondriacs that this is a warning!
3:39pm- Now we are driving through the National Petrified Forest. The only thing missing? The forest.
4:17pm- We've finally made it to New Mexico. Not to be confused with Old Mexico. Paula sees what she thinks is a 'mesa'. I think it's a big rock...just like all the other rocks we are seeing. She's cute so I give her this one.
4:26pm- Paula is driving so I put on some Metallica for her. She got really excited until she discovered it's a dubstep remix. She is suddenly not amused.
5:35pm- TIME CHANGE! We've entered the future.
7:30pm- Stopped for the night in Albuquerque. Our hotel is by a Denny's so we walked over there for a bite to eat. I think we were either invisible or time stands still in New Mexico. The entire place had maybe 3 people in it, yet it took 20 minutes for the waitress to come over to us whenever we needed something. Of course our meal was wrong because she didn't write it down. I hate when they don't write it down. There is no one in this place. How could you not remember my order?! We asked for two things! I immediately hate this place.
Paula is very upset that TV starts at 7pm here. This is completely messing with our excel spreadsheet of TV shows. I mean...we don't have that. That would be crazy!
Total mileage for Day 4: 570 miles
Total driving time for Day 4: Approximately 9 hours
Total spent for Day 4: $150.77
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