Day 1: Flagstaff to Utah

Carol and I ended up leaving Flagstaff around 4:30 thursday afternoon. The upside of the missing cat adventure was me being so relieved we were all in the car, I didn’t have time to feel sentimental and sad about driving off. 


We’d originally planned on going east first and following Route 66 up to Chicago but Michelle recommended going north through Utah for a prettier drive. Since prettier sounded good and there were some extremely high winds in New Mexico, we followed her advice. 

  

Our favorite moment on this drive was seeing a couple of cows wandering down the highway shortly after we got into Utah.