In August 2017 unexpectedly found myself on gardening leave in Phoenix and rather than die of boredom I asked the wife what was the one destination she really wanted to see before we left the USA in a few months time. Her answer was Niagara Falls. That was mid-morning, by late afternoon I picked up a rental car, we packed with the intent of heading off around 4:30am. Not sure which of us woke early but in the end we left at 2:30am and headed up interstate 17 towards Flagstaff in northern Arizona. At Flagstaff turned east onto interstate 40 that runs generally along the old Route 66.
Not long after getting onto I40 we pulled into a truck stop for a rest break and comfort stop. The wife soon noticed the...aaahhh...ladies and not being naive realized what they were doing. I spared her by not telling her the term generally used in the industry was 'lot lizards'.
We continued east and stopped in Holbrook at a Denny's restaurant just before 6:00am for breakfast. Along the way passed a huge power station that I not previously noticed during the day time. Kind of hard to miss in the early hours.