CALIFORNIA!!!!
Well we are at our first stop in California! What a day to get here.

Oatman Main St.

General Store

We left Kingman at 3300 feet and went down to McConnico that is I think at about 2000 feet. Then 66 follows the Oatman Highway to an elevation of 3550 along a very windy, drop off the side narrow road. It peaks at Sitgreaves Pass and boy does it go down from there! It ends at Golden shores which is at 900 feet! I am sure that I left my fingerprints in the handle grips. At about the halfway point is the town of Oatman. It has an old west motif to it and ahs a bunch of shops and stores. The biggest attraction though are the burros. It is said that he burros are decendants of the ones that the miners used and then abandoned when the mininng went dry. They are mostly white and apparently have the run of the town. While I did see some of them, I did not get a picture as one ran in front of me on the way into town.

Camper

Soda Fountain Booth

Outhouse (note the phone book)

Other than Oatman, there were not a lot of stops today until the Rte 66 Museum in Victorville. This is another private museum that collects memorabilia from the Mother Road and has a really nice display.

A good deal of the ride today ended up being on the old road and through the desert. It was difficult to say the least. There are not a lot of places to stop and the temperature was about 105 add to that the fact that I somehow caught a cold and I'll tell you  that I am beat tonight. Even so, I feel a real sense of accomplishment and satisfaction for having set out on this adventure, and really, it is only part way done.
Tomorrow we go to the pier at Santa Monica and to the end of The Mother Road. I will turn around and head back either Sunday or Monday, depending on other peoples schedules as I don't really want to go back solo.

More tomorrow!