Work Day - Albuquerque NM to Flagstaff AZ

Another deep sleep and quick pack up to go meet Jake for breakfast (which turned into brunch-lunch). Jake's new place is in a nice, quiet neighborhood with those dreamy "no-mow" lawns. They actually plan them with all kinds of plants and flowering stuff (can you tell I'm a botanist), and then just leave them. No lawn mowers here. We saw a roadrunner running through a yard, looking for breakfast as well I assume. We walked cross-town to a place called something like the Wafflezeum or Waffleteria or Wafflotorium which had waffles for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Pretty creative and packed, but we got a table and had a leisurely brunch catching up with each other. Walk back to Jakes, and said our goodbyes. We snapped the above pic of Hannah, Dad, and Jake, with our trusty steed "Clunk" behind (gotta remember him too!!)
Me being "Mr Prepared" decided to make it a work day and get some miles in so we had some buffer. So we spent the day on Rt 40 (no map required, just draw a straight line 324 miles east to west) doing 1 hour shifts with gas for Clunk every other stop. It was kind of relaxing not having to think which way to go next and traffic was light as we puttered along at 65 (speed limit here is 75).
We got into Flagstaff around 5:30 and found a strangely cheap hotel downtown so we could walk. Hannah knew the town a bit as this is where she spent a few days prepping for her Grand Canyon rafting trip last December so we walked around the town, which is another old railroad town from the late 1800's. Maybe the size of Burlington with a good sized college in it. Found one of 2 brew-pubs and had a nice long chat. Hannah is doing great at this motorcycle thing. Another warm, dry, sunny southwestern day

Our beloved steed, "Clunk"