Today ended up being the first part of a two part trip back to Phoenix. Gena's mom underwent eye surgery today, and it was decided that perhaps arriving back today wouldn't be the most conducive for her restful recovery. So we adjusted our travel somewhat, scaled back our journey, and plopped down in Flagstaff for the evening.
However, we stopped for lunch in Gallup. We wanted something that would please the whole family, and since we had time on our hands, we figured something more sit-down would be good. We started seeing signs for El Rancho probably 50 miles out from Gallup. This place purports to have been quite the place in it's heyday. Judging from the death of people around the property, that heyday has been long gone and now they're struggling to survive on their legacy. Granted, it's not a shabby legacy. The lobby itself is worth the stop - it's quite an impressive collection of different things (mounted deer heads, Native American art, chili pepper lights, animal hides, etc.) all placed together in relative harmony. The food wasn't anything fancy, but we were all able to find something that more or less pleased us. I was surprised that Mexican food wasn't the primary menu emphasis - I think they had more burgers and sandwiches than anything.
We enjoyed some rain about 30 miles out from the city proper, so the city was nice and moist and cool. Roughly 80 degrees, which we find to be just about as warm as things ought to get. If only it were going to remain this temperature for the next few weeks! It was nice to break up the journey into two parts, tomorrow will be the hotter, warmer one.
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