Watching "House" at a Comfort Inn

Has anyone heard of Dutch babies? We were served the owners' variation and told it's German. They were similar to wide slices of custard served with fruit and maple syrup. I must try to make this, it was delicious. Then back to the car for another day of driving.


We attempted to visit ghost towns in New Mexico with no luck. There was a location we found online and even heard about from locals but we never found it. It seems it was much farther from civilization than we thought. Instead of giving up, we pulled off the road to take some random photos in the desert.

Once in Arizona we finally saw the cactus Dustin has been waiting to find. He would point them out from time to time to yell out "Cactuar!" We passed through Tucson and Phoenix on the way to Flagstaff, our stop for the night.

We stopped in Phoenix for dinner at the strangest restaurant ever conceived. Chino Bandido is a Chinese/Mexican restaurant. That's right, fathom that: Chinese ... Mexican. My dinner was a carnitas burrito combo, with refried beans, chicken fried rice and orange chicken. Mmhmm, try to make all that come together in a logical way in your head. Oh, and everything comes with a snickerdoodle too. Dustin had the orange chicken with jerk chicken fried rice and Cuban black beans. The mascot/logo/whatever is a giant panda with a long mustache and wearing a sombrero. Yep, I said sombrero-wearing panda. It's on the sign, painted in a mural and there is a giant bronze statue in the dining room.

So here we are, settled into a decent hotel in Flagstaff with finicky wireless and rude front desk staff. Thank goodness it's only one night. We are off to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas tomorrow. Our b&b host mentioned his brother-in-law is a minister in Vegas... hmmm... ;)