{"id":2181,"date":"2013-06-29T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T01:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2018-09-22T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T17:36:57","slug":"a-week-in-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/29\/a-week-in-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, six days actually. Just felt like a week.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s bunkhouse on the little built-in desk. It was very cramped &#8211; I had to put the keyboard on my lap &#8211; but it worked because the WiFi at the <a title=\"Canyon Motel &amp; RV Park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecanyonmotel.com\/\">Canyon Motel &amp; RV Park<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Jett, however, was bored. I offered to take her into Williams &#8211; just 2 miles away &#8211; 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 <a title=\"Sultana Bar\" href=\"http:\/\/williamsnews.com\/main.asp?SectionID=74&amp;subsectionID=102&amp;articleID=8517\">Sultana Bar<\/a> with food provided by the adjacent <a title=\"Singing Pig\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesingingpigroute66.com\/\">Singing Pig<\/a> BBQ shop. I say &#8220;shop&#8221; because the Singing Pig is a tiny place &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered the pulled pork BBQ sandwich, &#8220;piled high,&#8221; accompanied by the Sultana brand wheat beer. Jett got the BBQ chicken and a root beer. The BBQ was excellent. The Singing Pig&#8217;s pulled pork was less runny than the Cowboy Club version that I had sampled two days before. I learned, however, that &#8220;piled high&#8221; means just that &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2182\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-068.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2182\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2182\" title=\"2013-06-16 068\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-068-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-068-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-068-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-068-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-068-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sultana Bar<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2183\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-069.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2183\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2183\" title=\"2013-06-16 069\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-069-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-069-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-069-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-069-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-16-069-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sultans Bar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 <a title=\"katchinas\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kachina\">katchinas<\/a>, Indian spirit dolls. We even bought one. You can never have too many good spirits when traveling cross-country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s bunkhouse on the little built-in desk. 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