Well, six days actually. Just felt like a week.
The main highlights of our time in Williams were the trips to the Grand Canyon and Sedona, previously documented. It was a work week for me, working remotely using my work desktop set up in the RV’s bunkhouse on the little built-in desk. It was very cramped – I had to put the keyboard on my lap – but it worked because the WiFi at the Canyon Motel & RV Park was excellent. I was able to communicate with the servers back in MA just as adroitly as I had done in my office in Temecula. So, work-wise, it was a successful week. Tiring but productive.
Jett, however, was bored. I offered to take her into Williams – just 2 miles away – to shop and browse, but she declined. Other than a trip to buy some food early in the week, the only time we made it into the town was Friday night, just before we left. We had dinner at the Sultana Bar with food provided by the adjacent Singing Pig BBQ shop. I say “shop” because the Singing Pig is a tiny place – just a kitchen and one long table. They cook only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and when they are cooking the Sultana Bar provides the seating and the beer. It is a great cooperative arrangement, I think, as it allowed me to simultaneously enjoy both.
I ordered the pulled pork BBQ sandwich, “piled high,” accompanied by the Sultana brand wheat beer. Jett got the BBQ chicken and a root beer. The BBQ was excellent. The Singing Pig’s pulled pork was less runny than the Cowboy Club version that I had sampled two days before. I learned, however, that “piled high” means just that – the pulled pork on the base of a bun, topped with coleslaw and french fries, then capped by the top of the bun. The sandwich was about 6 inches high. Too high to eat, so I had to unpile it first.
Sultana Bar
Sultans Bar
We strolled the street a bit after dinner and had a very interesting conversation with the clerk at the Indian jewelry shop. We learned a lot about katchinas, Indian spirit dolls. We even bought one. You can never have too many good spirits when traveling cross-country.