After hearing some really bad reports about the weather in Flagstaff, I decided to detour south through phoenix instead. I got on the road about three p.m. and drove the three hundred miles to PHX. It was good trip and it passed over the Hoover Dam which was great. Lake Mead is very low though. I posted to the Phoenix Couchsurf group before I got there asking for an emergency couch and I ended up staying with a great gentleman who recently moved to Phoenix from Chicago. He was a CS ambassador there. I had great food and beers and took off for Albuquerque, New Mexico in the morning for a five hundred mile drive.