Days Inn Kingman West

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 ...

We so much has been happening on our road trip!!!! The last part of the trip I think we were headed to Dallas. It was an interesting town. We saw where JFK was assassinated, stood on the grassy knoll and even went into the Book Deposity museum where the gunman shot him from. It really was fascinating how it all happened and the events that occured in the afermath.
From Dallas, Texas we headed to Houston where we visited the Johnston Space Centre (NASA ...

... to study and the public to view. After the movie we were given a rim tour of the crater with the head guide. He was enthusiastic and in his own words a "Crater Critter" The depth of the hole is 550 feet and about a mile across. It used to be 700ft deep, wind and erosion has filled the bottom to the depth of the 550 as it is now. The crater was first thought to be the result of volcanic eruption, but the first person to dispute this and suggest it was a ...

... My love for anyone else will never match my love for O-Hi-O. Another of my guiding angels thoughout my Journey has been my friend Andrea. She sends me emails and is always sending me gifts on Facebook. Whenever I felt lonely or thought that no one cared or was thinking of me she seemed to know that I needed cheering up. Coincidently her and her husband John had a baby boy on December 25, Christ's Birth Date. Well, at least the day we celebrate it ...

... in the future. As you come down into the Colorado River Valley, the mountains of volcanic rock give way to sand dunes littered with rocks, one to two feet in diameter. Close to the river, you pass near marshes that are meccas for wild life. Although I stopped to capture some of the desert plants struggling to survive and bloom in this arid country, we were losing our light, so we didn't linger. There is definitely more to see in this part of the state!

... sometimes without a cloud in the sky where you are. So our hearts skipped a few beats when, as we were hiking through the canyon, we began to hear a distant rumble. Look at the sky. Nothing. Could it be? Should we move to high ground? As we began to step to the side, the rumble more clearly became clicks, as in, the clicks of hooves on ...

... beautiful out here, the whole environment is something new to me. Hight desert, Cholla catci, prickly pears, Joshua trees. You also see a lot of Jack rabbits and Gambels quail running around. It's like Dr. Suess land. Everything is surreal. We went for a hike to the petroglyphs two days ago. It was amazing and humbling, thinking of the lifetimes of people who have wandered past these rocks and tried to decipher their meanings. These carvings have ...