day five: williams, arizona
I'm staying in pretty much the most bizarre hotel ever right now, the Canyon Motel & RV Motor Park. It's in Williams, Arizona, and I am nearly positive that Sam and Dean have stayed here, because it seems like just the kind of place that Dean would LOVE: weird little cabin-like things with their own individual driveways in front of them. You can also stay in a couple of rooms that are in former Grand Canyon Railway cabooses. Tragically, I think those were full. At any rate, it's on the edge of the old Route 66 downtown area, and earlier I sat in a restaurant and drank a Corona with lime and worked on my spn_remix fic -- I have no idea why I am feeling so compelled to get this done so early, but I've somehow gotten it in my brain that if I don't finish it before I get back to school, I will never have time to finish it ever. I recognize that this is silly, because I fully intend to write eighty bazillion words of angsty genderswap while I am at school, hopefully before S3 starts to air, even, but whatever, it's a compulsion, okay? Anyway, writing outside while listening to live music was lovely.
There was some seriously gorgeous scenery while we were driving through New Mexico and part of Arizona today. I kept thinking of the one line of nutkin's from Waiting Games about the landscape being like a continuous Flintstones backdrop -- I'm sure I just mangled that line (sorry, Addie!), but so true nonetheless. We drove through some of the most awful rain just after Flagstaff, though, which wasn't fun, even though the lightning was pretty phenomenal. I just would've rather gotten to watch it from inside somewhere instead of while on the road.
Speaking of nutkin, I'm going to take a page out of her book: y'know that postcards meme thing I posted earlier? Fuck that five-person-limit business. If you want a postcard from the Grand Canyon, drop me an email at katjakfd [at] yahoo [dot] com with your address and I'll send you a postcard. Just so long as I get your email before I head out tomorrow -- probably around eight or nine Arizona time, which is WEIRD and its own thing (they're technically on Mountain Time, but they don't participate in Daylight Savings, so basically it is the same as Pacific Standard Time right now. WTF, Arizona?) -- I will be happy to send you a postcard! Otherwise, I'll still send you a postcard, it'll just be from somewhere that is not the Grand Canyon. Yay postcards. :D
There was some seriously gorgeous scenery while we were driving through New Mexico and part of Arizona today. I kept thinking of the one line of nutkin's from Waiting Games about the landscape being like a continuous Flintstones backdrop -- I'm sure I just mangled that line (sorry, Addie!), but so true nonetheless. We drove through some of the most awful rain just after Flagstaff, though, which wasn't fun, even though the lightning was pretty phenomenal. I just would've rather gotten to watch it from inside somewhere instead of while on the road.
Speaking of nutkin, I'm going to take a page out of her book: y'know that postcards meme thing I posted earlier? Fuck that five-person-limit business. If you want a postcard from the Grand Canyon, drop me an email at katjakfd [at] yahoo [dot] com with your address and I'll send you a postcard. Just so long as I get your email before I head out tomorrow -- probably around eight or nine Arizona time, which is WEIRD and its own thing (they're technically on Mountain Time, but they don't participate in Daylight Savings, so basically it is the same as Pacific Standard Time right now. WTF, Arizona?) -- I will be happy to send you a postcard! Otherwise, I'll still send you a postcard, it'll just be from somewhere that is not the Grand Canyon. Yay postcards. :D