Day 6 - Out of Flagstaff


Arizona road block A quick look in the mirror at the roadblock that had formed behind them was all Billy Bob required to spur him off the main highway and into the various back loops that would carry the truck through to the next day.

The plan had been to visit some of the south west indigenous ruins anyway and it was fortuitous that the bulk of the significant sites were located off the main highway.

Distracted by the news that the "the dead guy" at the side of the road had been identified as "Big Charlie" and the news reports indicated that police were looking for information about his death, Billy Bob had forgotten himself and popped a cold Mickey's right in front of the Luby's family restaurant.

In full view of the picture window with the skirt curtain half way up the side, the open beer at 9:00 AM, Wednesday (?) morning had inspired three cell phones to flip open or on and call the Flagstaff police department.

Fortunately it was shift change, 9:00 on a Wednesday (?) morning and the new shift was a little slow to catch on. The roadblock was set up behind them and was sure to catch anyone drunk enough to drive south in the northbound lanes. Billy Bob and Cletis were heading north in the north bound lanes (as mentioned - it was early yet).

lookin out on the morning rain They headed off the main track, chugged through some construction and looped through Sunset Crater and Wupatki National Monuments.

Looking out over the broken and scrambled red rock ground around a building vacated less than 800 years before, Cletis thought to himself "Hard to believe that there used to be farming and eating sleeping and birthin babies and art and the like happening here, and now there are just organized heaps of rocks. Hard to beleive that Big Charlie started out as a baby and ended up a bloated dead body at the side of the road."

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