Eastbound and Not-So-Down

Recovery is well underway.

The car is pointed toward Lubbock and all is well. We passed the both the 5000 and 5500 mile marks on our nearly 600-mile drive today. Today was not about stopping and seeing the sites; it was about brief pit stops and getting back on the road. We didn't eat a proper meal (aside from breakfast) 'til we arrived in Flagstaff this evening. Though the kids weren't terribly hungry, mom and dad had a wonderful dining experience at the Tinderbox Kitchen. That's probably the 4th or 5th time that Urban Spoon has really come through for us on this trip.

I think I've got the missus convinced that we have time for a brief stop tomorrow at the Petrified Forest, but other than that - we'll be driving like mad 'til we roll into the Hub City.

[real-time side note]

I'm writing this (and the prior 3 posts) poolside while the kids are swimming in an outdoor pool. Since the weather's a bit cooler here in Flagstaff, I expected the kids to be spending more time in the hot tub than the pool. However, I overheard the children's voices in the pool longer than I expected: they'd made a new friend. My first clue was to hear the boy talk excitedly about his friends and toys in a way that made it clear his sister was his audience. When I looked up I saw another boy that was closer to my daughter's age than my son's. I could tell by the length of the conversation, and the fact that they never moved from the spot they'd been wading in the pool, that it was the older of my children that undoubtedly the older of my children that held this new boy's attention. Upon this revelation I set this blog aside for closer observation of 'the situation'. Rest assured that they never got closer than six to eight feet apart in the water. I began to think as I watched, "what [lies] will this boy tell his friends upon his return home?" After a subsequent conversation with the girl ("dad, did you see that cute boy I was talking to?"), I wondered about similar conversations she'd have with her friends. Do young girls boast of tall tales to their friends as young boys do?

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