getting our kicks on Route 66

We spent ten hours driving from Salt Lake to Albuquerque today, and it is just amazing how exhausted you can feel after doing absolutely nothing all day. Both of us were tired to begin with, and both had moments of complete orneriness today. At one point I stayed in a gas station bathroom extra long just to have some alone time. A gas station bathroom. Good grief, how pathetic am I?

Just before we entered Albuquerque we went through a rain storm, which somehow washed the moody blues away. And then, showing my resolve that they not return on this trip, we were greeted with this: