Get Your Kicks On Route 66

If you ever plan to motor west,Travel my way, take the highway that is best.Get your kicks on route sixty-six.~~Lyrics from Nat King Cole's song Route 66

We left Zion this morning and began our long trek back home. We stopped at the Hoover Dam for a quick tour. Lake Meade and the Colorado River was beautiful. The dam itself was very impressive. It's hard to believe they built such a magnificent engineering work so long ago.

We stopped in Holbrook, AZ, for the night. We arrived in Holbrook late in the afternoon but still had time to make a quick drive through Petrified Forest National Park. I found the Painted Desert to be more enjoyable than strolling around the petrified forest portion.

Along the drive, we traveled in part on the famous Route 66. We are going to try and drive to Oklahoma City by Thursday night. And, then, continue our drive to Alabama on Friday. We've got a couple of long days of travel ahead of us but we are trying to make the most of the trip on the way home as much as we can with the time we have left.