LA Road Trip Day 3

Day 3

8:30, 9:00 p.m., Rock shops and off

9:45 - Jackrabbit Trading Post!

Later - Twin Arrows - missed it 'till too late…

11:10 - Home of Andy Divine

1:40 - Nice conversation with a trucker (mac) and rest stop attendant (ed). Mac: "I've been seeing you since Flagstaff!"

1:55 - Roadkill Burro. First time I've ever seen that…

1:00 - California! (time zones again..)

1:05 - Inspection Station - yes, I'm always stopped, never just waved through…

1:30 - Eeeeek - $4.00 gas.

1:55 - Heart of the Mojave Desert. Decided to turn around and get back onto pavement.

Love the desert graffittee here… just stones piled on berms, spelling out names. Miles and miles and miles of names.

3:00 - Sheep Hole Mountains.

WHO KNEW? Depeche Mode doing the Rt. 66 song - a little rockabilly, a little goth. Me likey.

3:20 - 29 Palms, An Oasis of Murals

STUDCUTS. Barber shop. Yep, we've hit Marine Corps country.

3:50 - Desert Tortoise

3:55 - Flash Flood. Volkswagon Rabbit didn't make it.

4:40 - Claude Bell's Dinosaurs!

'tween 4:40 and 6:00 - horrible flooding, San Bernardino and Rialto. Wow.

6:00 - Sleepin' the Wigwam Way! I've just leveled up in the Roadside world.