Road Trip Tallies and Stats

We are back from our anniversary road trip. We had a lovely low-key time. Four days just wasn’t long enough. We traveled southwest from here (Denver) through the mountains down into Arizona. We visited the Grand Canyon and then came home a different route through the mountains. It’s what you call “taking the scenic route”… and it was definitely scenic. I took close to 700 pictures. Don’t worry. I don’t intend to post them all.

Here’s our route:

Travel Stats

• Time away: 4 days, 3 nights
• States: Colorado, Arizona
• Miles: 1,518
• Average MPG: 40.2
• Car Talk podcasts listened to: 4

Points of Interest

• Four Corners area (Where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet.)
• Historic Route 66 (in Flagstaff and Williams)
• Grand Canyon (More to come about that later this week.)
• Royal Gorge (We didn’t cross the bridge, but we did stop and look down in it.)

Lodging

• Iron Horse Inn, Durango, Colorado
• Grand Canyon Hotel, Williams, Arizona
• Days Inn, Cortez, Colorado

Restaurants

• Old Tymers Cafe, Durango, Colorado
• Station 66 Italian Bistro, Williams, Arizona
• Grand Canyon Coffee and Cafe, Williams, Arizona
• Jack and Janelle’s Cafe, Cortez, Colorado

Coffee Shops

• Durango Joe’s, Durango, Colorado
• Pony Expresso, Dolores, Colorado
• Dutch Bros., Colorado Springs, Colorado

Wildlife Tallies

• lizard – 1
• squirrel – 1
• stray dogs – 2
• wild horses  – 8
• mule deer: does – 10
• mule deer: bucks – 5
• mule deer: dead – 2
• elk – 1
• mountain lions – 0
• bears – 0
• moose – 0

Lyle logged all the driving hours. Me? I took lots of pictures and got a lot of crocheting done on my Spice of Life afghan as we drove. It was a great weekend.