After spending an hour on the highway, we stopped for lunch at a wild restaurant called the Snow Cap Drive Inn in Seligman, AZ.

I took a lot of pictures at this place. I learned a new trick that we can play on Gracie and Mr. Costello when we get back to school!

Buzz picked up an Arizona pin for his jacket at the Angel Delgadillo’s Barber Shop. They have most unusual restrooms! Even though they were outdoors, they had running water and TV sets! We weren’t able to get gas for the next 83 miles. We saw some beautiful desert but it was a hot day.

We stopped at a gas station that had an old wooden Indian at its door. Was it Kalija from that old Box Car Willie song? He couldn’t talk so I don’t know but I like to think so. Inside we thought we saw Annabelle but she too could not talk so we decided to strike the pose and have our pictures taken with her anyway. The young girl taking the picture for us was from Sweden. She spoke no English and her mother said she was shy. We talked and laughed with her for a while and even though she didn’t understand us very well, we had a fun time.

Old cars are everywhere in Arizona. I was told cars last longer in the desert because the air is so dry that cars do not rust and deteriorate as fast as in other locations. Link sat on the steering wheel of this corvette and pretended to drive the whole time we were there. (We’re trying to talk Chuck into teaching Link how to moon walk but we haven’t convinced him to… yet.) There was a TV show during the 60’s about a two guys driving their corvette around America called Route 66. Do you know anything about this?

It was a little scary in the desert. I thought often about how others had to travel through the desert during this area’s history and how hard that must have been for them. I want to study more about these people when we’re back to school. If you learn information about them, share it with me. OK?