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AZ16 - Day 10 (PD)

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Once we were away from the motel the plan was to get breakfast and also get a picture of Joe & Aggie's in daylight. Sadly someone had parked blocking a large chunk of the mural on the wall so we couldn't get a clear shot of the whole thing. The other side of the parking lot had a Holbrook mural. Fuelling the car took $36 and the range on the onboard computer went from 56 miles to 505. When we picked it up the average mpg was showing 19.5. Sticking roughly to speed limits (sometimes you have to floor it!!) and we now have it showing over 33mpg to the titchy US gallon.  The trains we had heard so much about weren't too bad. They ran all night but apart from few hoots, the earplugs weren't needed. We headed up R66 to the freeway and headed east and had breakfast at the Hopi Travel centre. We opted for the BK. The breakfast croissant was filling. Here we turned left onto SR77 into the Navajo Nation and headed north east to Chinle and the Canyons de Chelly. We stopped fo...