Day 14 - Vegas back to Kingman To Needles

Left Vegas fairly early and stopped off at the Hoover Dam. The bridge by-pass completed a couple of years ago is now open to sightseers and gives the most impressive pictures of the dam, with Lake Mead in the background.

Labour day in the USA so a lot of traffic on the main road down to Kingman but the towns were empty. Kingman is another town that plays up to its route 66 history.

The road from Kingman to Needles was probably one of the most scenic encountered on this trip. It winds it's way along narrow steep old roads into the Black Mountains. Very few cars and well away from the interstate. I had changed the car in Vegas as the engine /automatic gear box seemed as though it was giving up and given the heat and the state of the road today it was just as well.

Oatman is an old gold mining town high in the Black Mountains but now a pleasant tourist trap. 'Wild' burros roam the streets - I guess a bit like the New Forest but hotter.

Needles is a small desert town just inside the Californian state line. Very, very hot - 110 degrees F which is around 40C.

Big day tomorrow - the drive across the Mojave desert - stocked up on water and planning to make an early start.

 

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