We departed from Kingman after a brief stop at Walmart to pick up a bag of carrots and apples for the wild burrows of Oatman, AZ. Oatman is a fun place to visit, an authentic old western town with wild burros roaming the streets and gunfights staged on weekends. The burros are tame, they to get very excited when you feed them. So I hired a "security burrow" to protect the food and to keep the others at bay, it is very hard to get good staff these days and the working conditions are very dusty. One burrow attempted to eat my flag pole on the bike and stripped the device, so that has to be replace, one attacked my voice recorder and put a dent right through the battery, these guys are tough. The Hoot refused to come out of the trunk box the whole time we were in Oatman.
Start of the Mojave Desert Segment
Next stop is the desert town of Needles, California, yes we have made it to California, and the heat, up to 115F by 2:30 in Needles. So after a gas stop and a "re-water" stop we are off on old Route 66 via Goffs Road and the ghost towns of Goffs, Essex and Cadaz. Cadaz is the home of the famous Road Runner Resort (cafe and gas station), which has been abandoned for years, the cafe is on my main page of this we site.
The real jewel is in Amboy - ROY's MOTEL and CAFE. The site of more photo shoots, TV commercials and full length films, pictures will be posted shortly. But Roy's has GAS and cold, what more do you need at 115F, the desert is just EPIC!!
As the sun was going down and it was 6PM it was time to get moving to Ludlow, and I-40 into Barstow, but in Ludlow there were two more BNSF trains to photograph, so as a result we arrived well after dark around 8:30pm, and very HOT and tired as we did the last 35miles on I-40 at 75MPH.
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