What you do on Thanksgiving is not as cool as what we do on Thanksgiving. After a couple of bungled holidays with my mother and family, we’ve now learned better and will use the long weekend to get out of town and do our own thing. Leaving Scottsdale, we picked up some friends and dinner supplies and drove east to Superior because who wouldn’t want a roadside meal in this funky little town in Arizona that just two years ago was the backdrop for the slightly surreal Oliver Stone movie with Sean Penn called U-Turn?

Thanksgiving Superior style.

Back out on the road, we have a long drive ahead of us as it is 551 miles to our destination in Roswell, New Mexico. Well only 487 miles from Superior, but you get the idea. Matter of fact we have a detour somewhere else before we get to the Alien Capital of America.

We’ll be driving into the night as not only do we have about 10 hours in the car today, but it is November, and the days are short.