road trip back to phx

we left sunday afternoon for phoenix. we stayed the night in flagstaff & spent monday in sedona & jerome (a really cool artist town that was an abandoned copper mining town). we drove along route 66 for a bit until it turned into a dirt road. oops!

it's not as cool as it should have been in my mind- but we did find an old-fashioned local sonic like resturaunt! i'm in the middle of reading 'the lost continent' by bill bryson- who is one of my favorite authors, ever. he talks about how the small town ideal is lost to walmarts and huge chain movie theaters. it's so sad, because i can imagine how cool a road trip was during my parent's childhood- stopping to see the cool sites & now every site is the same... (ill stop my soap box now!)

we had a great time, none the less.