Get your kicks on Route 66

Day 5: Lubbock, TX to Williams, AZ
miles traveled: 820

So, thanks for Josh for letting us stay at his house. We ended up leaving his house around 10:00 central time and headed for the post office. We picked up some postcard stamps and mailed off a couple of letters. After heading out of town, we had a plane fly over our car. After watching the plane for a few more moments, we found out it was a crop duster, which was rather cool to watch. At 11:56, we hit 2000 miles on the trip tik. We got into Amarillo around 1 and got an oil change at Meineke where we made friends with the guys working there. After leaving Amarillo, we stopped off at the buried cars and spray painted "Epic Road Trip 2010" and then signed our initials. We left the cars and headed west towards New Mexico where the time changed at 3:15. We stopped and got some gas at 4:00 and met a beautiful golden retriever named Sophie. We were stopped at the pump when the car next to us opened the door and Sophie jumped out and ran over to Jenn. Sophie's owner apologized at the fact that the dog was wanting attention, but we all assured her that we loved dogs. Sarah actually devised an equation to explain the situation:
When dog deprived college kids and attention deprived dogs get together, a lot of happiness and tail-wagging occurs. The equation is as follows: (Sdd)(4) + (Dad)(1) = H where Sdd -> Student dog deprived and Dad -> Dog attention deprived and H -> Happiness

Anyways, we hit Albuquerque around 5:45 and then decided to stop at Cracker Barrel around 8:00. We all decided that we needed some greens in our life except for Turtle who got a cheeseburger. We were all a little nuts after being in the car for so long, so we were acting a little crazy at the table. I felt bad for our waitress, but she ended up being really nice and got a pretty nice tip. We left Cracker Barrel and got some gas before heading out towards Williams, AZ. We arrived in Arizona at 10:10 mountain time, but our phones were saying that it was 9:10. This confused all of us until Sarah figured out that Arizona doesn't recognize day light savings time. This was probably one of the latest nights because we didn't get into the KOA until 12:45. All in all, it was a good day, but it was incredibly long and we are all tired.

- Megan