finally a new post

After a few days without internet service in the hotels, and having to download a new browser to work with the blog...I think I'm back in business. We left Kingman and headed for Albuquerque. A good drive. We stopped first in a little town of Williams, a cute tourist town. We took some pictures and looked at some stores. Since Elvis was not with me, I had my picture made with the other Elvis!! Next was Kingman AZ, we "stood on the corner" there and sang the song. A real cool place. We had lunch at a hotel, a great eating place, good thing Dave and Carol knew of the place, we could not have ever found it. Then it was back on the road to Albuquerque. We had dinner in the famous Owl Cafe, had a great mexican chille relleno...um good. The next morning it was off on I40 towards Wichita. There was a terrific cross wind for a hundred or so miles. We drove thu Greenberg KS, stopped for gas, coulod hardly stand up in the wind. In 2007, I drove thru the same town just a few weeks after the tornado blew it away. You can still see the damage five years later. We made it to Wichita and the wind was still blowing. We had a great dinner at the Hanger steak house. Its all done up in aircraft decor....neat. The next day was onto to Des Moines. A no eventful day. Dave drives with a radar detector, that was a big help, it save us a couple of times. We had dinner at Texas Road House with friends Dave and Sandy, that was fun. We left Des Moines at 6AM to get to downtown St Paul by 11 AM. There was a 50's kickoff party that Dave was invited to, next was registration for the 50's, we hung out there for a while seeing friends and having a beer. Then it was off to the Scavangers car club picnic. That was real nice. Finally it was to the La Quinta hotel for the weekend.