I-40

Nevada Desert

This morning’s breakfast was at Mike and Rondas The Place, which we ate at the last time we were in Flagstaff in November of 2021. We were very pleased with that meal, but this time not so much. It was the eastside location of the restaurant that we ate at then and I don’t know if it was just this downtown location or what, but this time the food was bland and turned cold before we finished eating it. We have vowed that this was the last time we eat at Mike & Rhonda’s.

This might be an easy vow not to break because of Las Vegas. In November when we traveled this route back home we got into heavy traffic on I-515 into downtown and it was a major pain. So, this time I thought that maybe if we got on I-215 which looped around the west of the city it would be better even if it was a dozen miles longer. Ha, not so much, and it might have been worse. We have vowed not to come this way at all ever again. From now on when we make this trip we will just drive home the way we came via the Loneliest Road.

The shift to this ‘there and back on the same route’ plan was also enhanced by the negatives of having to drive in through downtown Albuquerque in the morning to catch I-40 west. Plus I-40 presents its own negatives as well, what with the shear amount of truck traffic that uses this cross country highway and the rough road surface cause by all these heavy vehicles.

On the plus side of the Klamath Falls to Carson City to Ely to Moab to Santa Fe route is it will give us an opportunity, on one of the legs, to visit the lower portion of Canyonlands National Park. Come back in November of this year and see how we do.