Day 3-"The Never Ending Road"

Since we got into Flagstaff so late last night we didn't see how gorgeous it was. We woke up this morning with at least a foot of snow on the ground and 3 feet piled up on the side of the roads. The town was surrounded by huge mountains covered with snow (the ones in the pic are called San Francisco peaks). Through some parts on I40 we would go down a hill and see miles and miles of a stretch of the interstate we still had to drive on. I felt like cheering when we finally reached the end of I40. We drove today though every kind of weather and terrain imaginable. We started with snow in Flagstaff and then went on to desert and mountains, then to just desert, then to grassy hills, and then grassy farmland. Southern California is absolutely gorgeous! There are grassy hills everywhere (this was in Barstow). There was an old train tunnel that went through one mountain and then thousands of cows grazing on the hillsides...it looked like a postcard! We are now sitting at a Best Western and finally found some free internet!!! Woohoo! We're about 2 hours south of Sacramento which is where we have to go tomorrow to get our nursing license. After that we'll get into our apartment in Oakland and then its some siteseeing before Mama and Daddy fly back Sat night.