Kingman Arizona gateway to Grand Canyon

Left Palm Springs this morning, did a long drive through suburbia to get to a store to buy a jacket, left town, skirted around Joshua Tree park. Went into Mojave desert proper. Went past a truly massive solar farm. Min 20km squared. Watched another V22 Osprey doing very low flying and manoeuvres beside the road.

This drive? It is sort of like driving on the Nullabor plain but with mountains surrounding and heaps of arroyos. A lot of trucks and an unbelievable amount of shed tires and rubber on the side of the road. Here they don't put in a box culvert to keep the road flat. I always thought max speed was 55mph in US. Wrong, it's 65 to 75mph depending on the road, and if you aren't doing 10mph more, someone is up your butt. So the roads with lots of arroyos are crazy. I was starting to feel car sick. The scenery is very impressive. I saw one place a long way from anywhere. I guess, 5acre lots with a mobile home on each of them. Off grid living. Eventually I crossed the Colorado River and was in Arizona. Also, as I'm in Kingman, I'm now on Route 66!Read more