Rob and Frankie spent the night gallivanting around Scottsdale and Tempe with Niece Christine's friend Jen, who showed the young men all the sights. In the morning, around 8:00 Phoenix time, we left the hotel, Rob driving the 240D and me driving the ML320, and traveled the steep grade back up into Flagstaff. The poor 240D labored, sometimes only achieving 30 mph at very steep inclines. In Flagstaff, we ate at Coco's Restaurant and had a grand time. After the meal, we left for the four hour drive to Albuquerque.
Between Flagstaff and Gallup we ran into a series of dust devils, one of which had about twenty tumbleweeds in the cone. one tumbleweed left the passenger front wheel of the 240D bent! The photo here is not the actual dust devil (since I didn't bring my camera). We saw another dust devil around a trailer park development that was carrying a 4x8 sheet of plywood or a door within the cone. I am glad that we didn't run into that one!
We made it back home to Albuquerque around 6:15 pm Sunday evening and were very tired.
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