Silver Queen Motel 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.

... a small town on the way and enjoyed ice cream and took photos of the strange assortment of paraphenalia that diners along the route had collected. Not exactly sure what the town was called, but I do know we were on what is now Route 40 in Arizona (yea sorry about my shifty memory - I think the tequila in Mexico has got to it).

That night in Vegas was pretty subdued. A group of us ...

... familiar names have a high comfort level, but we hope you'll remember to support small businesses not only when you're on the road, but at home, too. Last night we stayed in Grants NM, Grants isn't very big and there weren't a whole lot of places to eat open other than fast food chains, but after driving the strip, we decided to go to El Cafecito. It was the right choice and ...

... around a bit, but finally got out of town and on our way. As we were loading up, my pocket knife sliced my finger pretty good so then I have had to get band aids from everyone I've met, just about. There are more mountains than you can count, and they are grand to see, but with the haze it has been difficult. I think it is due to so many wildfires in Calif. I heard there were over 500 fires. We made good time once we got ...

... s a 4 foot high glass railing. A couple are in front of me and the lady is freaking out. She's afraid of stepping out onto the glass. A Native host, dressed in traditional garb is telling her to jump as high as she can on the piece of glass that's still over the ground to prove that it's safe. She jumps about 6 inches. They slowly inch onto the walkway. The Native host is trying to convince her to have faith and face her fear of the unknown. I pass them ...

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... complaining. We made our way to the Sea Shore Motel, in the splurge section of our shoestring guide, for a couple of hours kip, before taking in the sights of Venice beach and Muscle beach along with Santa Monica Boulevard. There are so many show offs, weirdos etc there it's fantastic people watching! The following day (our fourth anniversary!!) we headed out to Hollywood and I took K on a tour of some of the better beverly hills roads. The houses are amazing, ours is ...

... that morning, but after that we did not really expect anything more than flat dirt and some desert plants with a few mountains in the background. We both decided it might be another day for the Interstate after we were done with the volcano and ice caves. Driving down I-40 after crossing the Arizona border, I stated "Well, this is pretty much what I expected out of Arizona." Eric agreed. In the distance we saw a small mountain range that seemed to stay on the horizon ...