Holiday Inn Express And Suites Kingman

Auf dem Weg nach Kingman sind wir auf der Historic Route 66 gefahren...Zuerst eine Enttaeuschung, dann aber doch noch lustig (siehe Videos) :-)

Von Kingman aus sind wir weiter auf der Route 66 nach Oatman gefahren...dies ist angeblich eine Ghosttown...aber das muss schon eine Weile her sein. Heute ist es eher ein Touristen-Mekka mit Souvenir-Shops und hungrigen Eseln...

From the Grand Canyon we travelled through more Desert to Kingman, which is where we were joining Route 66.












The evening went through to a lekka Cowboy restaurant and had a great evening enjoying some steak.

The following morning we drove from via route 66 to Vegas. Route 66 originally went from Chicago in the east to Los Angeles and was termed "The Main Street of America". It has appeared in many films through the years but is pretty much non-existent now with other highways superseding it. However certain states have retained sections of it and renamed it Historic Route 66. We stopped ...

... it was a n amazing sight. We then headed to Tombstone to see the OK Corral. It was just a small western street that they hadn't paved to keep it as authentic as possible. There were people dressed up in the street and the saloon as if they were from an old western movie. From Tombstone we headed to Tucson to sleep for the night.
The next morning we headed to Biosphere 2 (a place where they kept 7 people inside for 2 years as a science experient ...

... How cool is that. We also diverted off the I40 to take a short trip down the route 66 for about 17 miles. This was listed as a scenic route, but we felt there was no difference in the scenery between the two routes and the 66 was about 15mph slower, so we headed back on to the 40 and proceeded to a Wal Mart near our home tonight in Kingman. Tomorrow we head out towards Los Vegas to collect the monies from the casino to pay for the trip. See you out there.

... tie to get a seat You can't even watch, no you can't eat, you ain't supposed to be here Sign said you gotta have a membership card to get inside, ooh And the sign said "everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray" But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn't have a penny to pay So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign I said "thank you Lord for thinking of me, I'm alive and doing fine!", woah Sign, sign ...

... the various sects, the Moonies, the Church of Scientology, the Hindus, Falun Gung, and the list goes on and on. What are they going to say about my message, actually it's What? Is! message. What of the more "mainstream" beliefs? The Christian splits. Belief in Jesus Christ and his message, but interpret it a thousand different ways. Then we have the Mother Church. They have their own country, the Vatican ...

... send an email to Louise in Calgary to see if there's room in her driveway for my trailer for a few weeks. As I'm typing the fog starts clearing. Heading home is starting to look like the plan. If I head south now I am in a rush to get back to Canada by April 10th. By going home first and spending a few weeks there, then coming back, I have 6 more months, if need be, to do what I need to do in the USA. Next on the agenda is lack of funds. I have Kokopelli ...

... chains and rebar hand holds. Scampering rodents and the deathly silence in the caves didn't add any encouragement either. If you do have the confidence to trek to the bottom, do it. The waterfall is so much more impressive at the base. Looking up the canyon walls, makes the scene that much more unbelievable. This has to be a movie set. But it's damn real. Getting to the falls was one heck of a journey. We started at Hualapai Hilltop, 60 miles north of Route 66 on Indian ...

... After the pep talk we watched the early part of their journey, on a zig zag track down the shear face of the canyon. A quick second look around the area, a last look down into the canyon and the we went back to the cabin packed and made our way back to the Airport for our bumpy flight back to Las Vegas. A late afternoon return to our hotel time for something to eat and off to bed.