Not an April Fool’s Story

Saturday morning we left Needles CA under sunny skies and made good time to Seligman AZ.  This is where the effort to “Save Route 66” got started.  We stopped to have lunch there with Elvis.  He is sitting on the bumper of an Edsel:

Although he was a mannequin, the following is for real, not a joke:

Saturday’s temperatures were in the 90’s in northern Arizona.  Today, Sunday afternoon, we are still here and it is 44 degrees windy, cloudy, and occasional flurries.  Winds are gusting to at least 40 miles per hour.  Maybe it’s a good thing we are not traveling?

The bad news is that we can’t travel.  Our engine died at the top of an exit ramp yesterday afternoon and wouldn’t restart.  A “side-of-the-road” diagnosis was the high pressure fuel pump is gone, but we won’t find out for sure until sometime on Monday.

What does it take to tow a motorhome?.....A BIG Towtruck

So we are now spending a few days shopping and sightseeing in Flagstaff.  We are enjoying all the amenities of “Camp Freightliner” which amounts to 108Volts at the end of a long extension cord (maybe 12 amps max, before we pull the line below minimum voltage and we go offline).

We're hoping that the repair will be quick on Monday and that we will be on the road back to MN again soon!