The Grand Canyon Adventure - part 5

The next day, the boys and their parents got started on their day of traveling. It was going to be a long day. Their parents said that they would be in the car for 9 hours.

They drove and drove and drove. They went from Oklahoma to Texas. The temperature went up and up. It was hot in Oklahoma, but it was hotter in Texas. It got up to 103!

Along the way someone had to go to the bathroom, so the family started to look for a place to stop. They realized that when you are in Texas, there are not always a lot of choices when it comes to bathroom or gas stations. They did find and exit with a Gander Mountain in the middle of nowhere. Thank goodness!

They drove and drove and drove some more. Everything was brown. Not much grows in northern Texas.

The boys' parents noticed some warning lights come on in their car. After looking up what was wrong in the book that tells about your car, they decided that they were OK, but they would need to have their car checked out when they got home.

The family decided that they wanted some ice cream. They had seen a Dairy Queen sign and wanted to stop. When they got out of the car, they saw a sign on the door that they were out of ice cream. Can you imagine a DQ without ice cream?!

The boys' mom decided to help out with the driving. After a while the air conditioning stopped working. The boys had to roll down the windows. It was pretty windy, but the temperature had dropped to about 98 so it wasn't so bad.

The family arrive at their hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico where the were going to spend the night. They found a Papa Johns pizza place and ordered pizza delivered to their hotel. They swam until the pizza got there. Then they watched a movie in their room until it was bed time.