Travel Time: 8 hours, 58 minutes
Pictures Taken: 66
Today was a rainy day in the morning. We went back to Route 66 for a while and stopped at some small towns that try to capitalize on the Route 66 phenomenon. Case in point is Seligman,CA. There were a couple of incredibly cheesy stores with Route 66 memorabilia for sale and incredibly tacky displays.
We needed gas, so stopped at Kingman, AZ. The gas station with the best prices was a place called Terrible's. It must be a regional chain, but still. Who calls themselves Terrible's?
While in Kingman, we HAD to stop and try the famous Mr. D'Z Route 66 Root Beer. The diner was a bit full of itself and also full of not-quite-sane people. At $2.50 a bottle, however, one would have to be insane to buy it very often. We each tried a bottle - the jolt from the high-fructose corn syrup was quite the energizer!
There wasn't much to see for most of today. Just lots of desert and mountains and trains.
Since we were passing through, we decided to drive into the Mojave Desert Natural Preserve. There were some caves there to tour but as we'd already done caves on this trip and the tour was 90 minutes, we decided to pass. There were a ton of cacti and stunted palm trees and it was VERY windy!
The wind even scours the rocks!
On our drive out of the preserve, we saw some longhorn cattle just munching away on the side of the road. There were no fences and we'd seen signs warning of cattle crossing, so it shouldn't have been such a surprise. But it was! They were a little spooked when I insisted on stopping to take their photo. The one on the far left is hiding - it was very scared and ran away.
We stopped for the night in Victorville, CA which is a bit north of the LA area. Tomorrow it's a fairly short drive into LA and on to Santa Monica to find the end of Route 66 and the Pacific Ocean.
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