Tag: vacation breakfast

• Route 66, Tepee Hotels, and Squirrel Puppets – Thoughts from September 17, 2024

  

  Patti and I woke up in the tepee hotel early in the morning. Taking a shower in the oddly shaped shower was as weird as showering in a tepee can be. All I can say about it and the toilet is they worked. It’s good to do so we can say we did it, but…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 26, 2025

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• Route 66, Hotels, and Donkeys – Thoughts from September 15 and 16, 2024

  

  September 15, 2024 Today is not only Patti’s birthday, but it is the beginning of our Route 66 trip. We’re driving to various locations in Arizona and New Mexico. After we hit Roswell, we head back to California. We finished packing last night. I’m not sure I have enough clothes for the return trip, but…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 19, 2025

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  2024, American diet, Arizona, birthday, Brooklyn 99, California, complimentary breakfast, donkey food, donkey-related merchandise, donkeys by name, earplugs, eating out of your hand, eye mask, free-roaming donkeys, gas prices, giant guitar, Glenn Frey, hand sanitizer, Holbrook, homemade hummus, Lake Havasu, loud air conditioner, Netflix, New Mexico, normal breakfast, Oatman Arizona, old western town, on the corner, Patti, podcasts, pushy donkeys, regular metal key, Roswell, Route 66, Route 66 memorabilia, Route 66 trip, small hotel room, Take It Easy by the Eagles, taking pictures, tepee-shaped hotel, thoughts, TV volume, vacation breakfast, Winslow Arizona, YouTube