Mojave desert & getting to LA finally

We woke up after a long night's sleep, and we realised we really need to try and contact Ester néni, if we want to stay with her the same night. Seamus went down to ask the front desk, to ask if we can use a phone to call her. He came back telling me excitedly that there's a breakfast downstairs. It was really surprising, as it was literally the cheapest motel we could find in the area... We had some coffee, oatmeal, and toasted waffles, and I managed to call Ester from the front desk, and get their address. We had an about 4.5 hours drive ahead of us, which at the time didn't seem too bad, so I decided we should make a detour into the Mojave desert, as we missed that on our way to Las Vegas. It turned out to be a quite long drive, but it was very pretty, and I didn't want to just drive all day, so it was good that we went. There were long straight endless roads, abandoned buildings, and the largest Joshua tree forest in the US (actually is bigger than in Joshua Tree National Park). These trees are the strangest trees I've even seen, growing in weird directions, and super spiky. We had a tomato throwing competition at one.
Getting out of the desert we joined up with all the traffic going back to LA on a Sunday afternoon, so we had some really slow traffic. In the end we made it to Esther's House at 9 in the evening. We were a bit worried that we can't let them know that we will be slightly late, and we were slightly right, as they were waiting with dinner for us, but have already ate theirs. Still we were given a warm welcome, maybe even more so, as they gave up on us arriving that night already. We had some beer and rakott krumpli in the kitchen, and then had a super comfy night's sleep again.Read more