Lovely Bryan woke us nice and early again this morning so we could hit the road. Our accommodation in Barstow was just great, a real home feeling with lots of lovely extras.
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| The foyer where guests were invited to put their feet up. |
We headed down for our breakfast (which was similar to yesterday) and then packed up and off we went. The road was fairly boring, although the scenery was lovely.
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| The trucks here are HUGE |
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The travellers
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After a couple of hours we hit Arizona. Not a lot of difference, except Bry could drive 75miles an hour (about 120kms). We saw a few interesting things in the middle of nowhere that we have no idea what they were there for.
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| Any ideas? |
The rock formations were amazing.
Our first stop in Arizona was Kingman.
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| Everything here is big. |
We were just about ready for lunch (we had lost an hour because Arizona doesn't use daylight saving) so we drove onto Seligman and stopped at the wellknown Road Kill Diner. It was so much fun. Bry even had a real buffalo burger
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| Tay wasn't too happy to be standing here |
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| The sign outside (serious!) |
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The decor..loved the huge jam jar glasses
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We headed on to Williams. We quickly checked in and then went to Bearizona. What an amazing park. It has a drivethrough track where the animals roam freely, much like you used to be able to do at Orana Park with the lions.
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| We had no plans on getting out! |
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| Rocky Mountain goat |
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| American Bison |
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| Alaskan Tundra Wolves |
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| White Bison |
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| Black Bears!!! |
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Arctic wolves
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They were all so close that we could have touched them. Amazing!!! After the drivethough area there is another part where you can get out and walk around. Here we saw...
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| A squirrel |
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| Tay and friend |
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| Beavers |
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| A raccoon |
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| A swift fox |
It was so worth the visit!!! I forgot to say that we didn't hit snow until we got to Williams...this was the place we hadn't booked any accommodation as the road is regularly closed due to snow. However, we got lucky and got a stunning day. Cold obviously, but stunning.
We headed to downtown Williams on Route 66 and had a walk around. What a fabulous wee town.
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| Williams is on Route 66 |
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| Smokey says the fire risk is low |
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| Even Elvis loves it here |
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| Christmas lights everywhere |
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| Another route 66 shop |
It was time for dinner and we headed to a very busy, popular diner. We all ordered the roast beef and enjoyed some veges (not very exciting veges-mixed corn, beans and carrots) and then just had to try some American Pie. There were so many flavours to chose from.
We went for double butterscotch, banana cream and chocolate and banana.
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| The banana cream |
The pieces were huge and we only ate about half. The filling was very cream like but very rich. We wouldn't order it again, but we had to try it once.
The place we are staying here is lovely...time for bed.
Tomorrow...The Grand Canyon and the drive to Las Vegas
xxx
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