As a part their Christmas we took another quick road trip with Chelsea and Travis. We headed up to Jerome on Sunday, Christmas shopped a little bit more, and ate at the Haunted Hamburger again. Chelsea and Travis went back and forth on doing a haunted tour, but eventually passed because Chelsea wasn't feeling that great.
We spent the night in Sedona again at the same place because it was still too cheap to be believed. I like Sedona in the off season. In the morning, after a great breakfast which included a 3-pound (not a typo) cinnamon roll, we headed up to Flagstaff and Walnut Canyon, driving up Oak Creek canyon. We hiked through Walnut, buying an annual park pass in anticipation of more park visits soon enough. My knee held up well on the way down, then even back up the 300 hundred some odd stairs. We hadn't been there since the kids were little.
We had a late lunch at MartAnne"s Cafe for mexican then rolled back down the hill, again spending the night at Chelsea's.
The next morning we moved into a hotel for a few days. I made a reservation for points and a little cash and received a confirmation email, but when we arrived it was points only. I found this odd, mostly because I didn't think I had that many points, but let it ride to see how it would turn out. When I checked my points (and cash) were all still there. Somehow we ended up with a three day stay at a nice hotel for free. Merry Christmas to us!
That Thursday morning I was checking the oil in the car before our departure and happen to try and spin one of the pulley wheels that a couple of the belts ride on. The wheel is a guide and it just spins; it doesn't power anything. It protested loudly when I tried to spin it by hand. Since we were about to depart for our next leg of our road trip I quickly made an appointment for the next day at Sandy and Sons. They replaced the belts but were not able to get a new pulley (with its new bushing) until Monday, and we were planning on leaving in the morning. They didn't seem that concerned and it was quiet for now (I think they just lubed it) so we put it on the list, maybe for just after Christmas in Las Cruces.
In the morning we headed over to Las Cruces to Heather's Mom's place. We stayed for about a week, repacking the car, then headed back to Chelsea's in Gilbert for one night. We were finally ready for the last leg of our unplanned six month road trip, heading up to Madison's in San Jose for a quick Christmas visit. She had just started a new job and wouldn't be able to get to us, so we went to her.
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