A slightly longer trip then planned today due to me getting on highway US-15 and not taking the US-215 exit. Stupidly I even looked at it as I rode past and thought maybe I should have gone onto it.
I realised about 5 minutes later when the Los Angeles sign came up, only problem was there was no exit for about 25km’s. so we ended up adding around 70km’s to our trip today.
We did make the following touristy stops though:
- Kingman Railroad Museum, Kingman, Arizona
- Mr D’z Diner, Kingman, Arizona
- Cool Springs, Arizona
- Sitgreaves Pass, Arizona
- Oatman, Arizona
The rail museum is disappointing even if it only cost $2.00, not much there in the way of the rail history of the line or area.
We called in at Cool Springs and the owner offered to do photos for us so I gave him my camera. Never checked anything until we got to the motel, no idea what he did but he never took any photographs 😛. A little warm riding through the Mojave desert from Oatman, AZ. to Needles, CA. Got to 48.5°C. Rather warm, at least there was no humidity.
Well Needdles is certainly a warm place to stay. It was still 46C at 17:45. Needless to say we stayed in the air cone as much as possible after a swim to cool down. It was far too hot to venture out for a meal when we got to Needles. Our evening meal consisted of cold beers and ice cream 😛.
