I arrived in Flagstaff on Wednesday night after leaving the group of Australia Harley riders at the Grand Canyon. I had booked a room for the following night through AirBnB but needed a place to stay that night, so I dropped into Starbucks for a coffee to use their wifi.
I booked into a place called the Econo Lodge, which turned out to be just off Route 66. How awesome is that (see below)! The motel doesn’t look like much from the outside but the rooms were lovely (spacious, clean and modern).
I wasn’t particularly hungry that evening so I had a little room party for one. I bough a bag of popcorn and a beer and sat listening to the Hot Country playlist on Spotify. I love this playlist! It was such a chilled out evening.
The next morning, after taking Trinity to get washed and fixing my dream catcher, I headed into downtown Flagstaff for a little wander. What a cute city. Here are some photos of downtown.
My next stop was the Lowell Observatory. The observatory has been around since the early 1900’s and has been at the forefront of astrological discoveries, including the discovery of Pluto in March 1930. Below is the telescope that was used to discover Pluto as well as capture about 75% of the night sky.
I was fortunate that my AirBnB host for the evening, Dan, lives on the edge of town on the hill. This meant that I got to see the sunset and then had an amazing view of the sky just before I headed off to bed. I could see the Milky Way from my balcony. It was amazing!
Sadly I don’t have any photos I can share with you but imagine seeing thousands of twinkling stars with ‘clouds’ of stars scattered across the evening sky and you would have been standing right next to me. It was perfect!
Mel & Trinity 