We arrived at Mythohistoric Route 66 at 12:45 today and immediately went to the 66 cafe in Ashfork. Dave's omlette was good, my bbqued beef was awful. So it goes on Route 66. Then we climbed from 4300 feet to over 7000 feet in 16 miles. We are pretty tuckered out from our continuing ascent into the Rockies.
We are in Williams AZ tonight, the last community sidelined by I-40. It is s delightful town with a great steakhouse where we had dinner. We don't splurge a lot, but today's climb was our longest and felt slower than the climb on Wednesday which was actually steeper. Either way our climbing legs are good, but we are tired of climbing.
So tomorrow we climb some more as we move to Flagstaff. We crested over 7000 feet today, but will go up as high as 7300 feet before we finally head downhill. We are looking forward to cruising out of the Rockies, although they are lovely. The weather is perfect for us.
Both if us have noticed that the altitude is having some effect, so we are taking it slow. It is only 33 miles to Flagstaff and if the hills are not too bad it means a short day. 51 miles today and the long ascent tired these two geezers out.
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