After a wonderfully healthy breakfast of a slice of chocolate cake (the one we couldn’t eat from the other night!!!), we packed our bags and all the other goodies we had, into the car and went to check out. When we got outside, we got a surprise of it being rather cold and windy. Temperature was 61 degrees F (about 15 degrees C) – the coldest so far!
From Vegas we crossed the Hoover Dam and then headed on to Kingman on Route 66 but before getting there we stopped off at “the famous Rosie’s Den”. We ended up having pancakes. These were huge !! They were the size of a dinner plate and about 5cm thick and as a single serving you got two!!!!! Dereck and I only managed to eat one of them.
We got on our way and our next stop was Kingman which is the heart of Historic Route 66 and is at an elevation of around 3 300 feet. There was an historic train and a classic car display which we had a look at and then went on our way.
We drove on past Valle Vista, Hackberry, Valentine, Truxton, and Peach Springs before reaching Seligman where we found a place to stay – the Canyon Lodge. (pictures). Most of these places we drove through were really one horse towns with a handful of houses and a couple of shops.
The town of Radiator Springs in the Pixar film Cars is loosely based on Seligman.
After unpacking, we headed off to see the historic sights and of course the shops. These shops had such stunning memorabilia and we will be back in the morning to stretch the credit card a bit!
We headed off to the “Famous Black Cat” bar and had a drink and then went to the “Roadkill Restaurant” with a slogan of “you kill it we grill it”, but it was closed, so we went across the road to “Westside Lilo’s Café”, which had a German/American feel to it. Doug and Dereck had beers for $1 which they quite enjoyed. We had supper there which was very yummy. Doug and I had chillie beef, Dereck had a chorizo burrito and Sue had a southern fried steak. We finished off with 1 piece of carrot cake, which was huge and between three of us only managed to eat half. Boy their helpings here are HUGE!!! We then had to walk all the way back up the road to our motel, and of course setting off all the dogs barking – had a good laugh as we were barking back to them.
This is a famous route for bikers and we have seen many, majority of whom are on Harley Davidsons with all their gear as well.
A great day, good evening and looking forward to the next part of our Route 66 trip tomorrow.
Route 66’er signing off ….
2 comments:
More enjoyable reading and photos, just hope by Friday the weather will have improved here in England, rain and a lot colder here now, but if it rains between now and Friday the sun might come back for the weekend.
Jose
It feels like you are our tour guide and experiencing the real thing ... don't know where you find all the time to download your pics and still do such comprehensive write-ups of each day. But then you are the most organised person I have come to know. Michelle, you must keep an eye on that eye candy of yours ... his awalling amongst some serious models! Sjoe, I can't believe the size of those gigantic pancakes. I am sure no one can manager two of those for a normal portion! Hugs from Desire
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