Last night was spent in the lovely Silver Queen Motel in Kingman, Arizona. Getting all 14 of us into one hotel at the proper price is not unlike herding cats, with people starting to snip at each other and then there are the catty comments that follow — I think everyone is just exhausted.
Dinner was at the AJ Steakhouse, which was amazingly good — of course, any place that serves Manhattans and steaks cooked by someone else is good. A stop at Safeway for booze (and breakfast items for some) followed — along with a round of drinks (and ice cream) in my room before people started snoring. It was almost 9:30pm! That’s an hour and a half after our normal bedtime.
And the morning is a cluster fuck of Jaime and Paula leaving at 7:30am (apparently announced last night — but missed by me and others), Chris and a bunch of others going to Denny’s at 8 — guess this means that we aren’t carpooling back to Markleeville and Jamie and Paula’s house. Wonder if this means that I don’t have to carpool with the Matt who is leaving at the same time…
More later, maybe (or not).
loved reading everything you wrote – what an incredible journey – what an accomplishment!
GREAT PICS ..