We made it into Las Vegas about 5 PM on Saturday afternoon, and started with a drive up and down the strip just to see what had changed since last time.. and as usual a lot.  When we first visited Vegas. it was a sleazy mafia city that was trying to shake its image by […]

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Laughlin, this town is on the Nevada border on the Colorado River and is home to a dozen or so casinos (and not much else). We called into the Colorado Belle, a casino on the river shaped like a huge paddle steamer, out the front was a German beer festival with some German bands so […]

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Oatman is a tourist town come old ghost town that has wild burros or donkeys roaming the streets.  The town was pretty cool, plenty of gift shops, arty farty stuff and plenty of spiritual things like dream catchers, fortune tellers and the like. [Show as slideshow] 1 2 ►  

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Today we continue our journey to the US West coast and travel the most scenic piece of Route 66 we have come across yet to Oatman. There are some breathtaking scenes, huge cliffs, canyons and a great windy narrow road. [Show as slideshow] 1 2 ►  

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Later in the arvo we visited the old gold mine  ghost town of Chloride, this place was around 25 main away and is now home to a lot of artists. It was a real fun place, their is an old west type ghost town setup where they stage gunfights on the weekend. We also a […]

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We had lunch at a 60s style diner in Kingman and then went to a aircraft museum near the airport, it was this town that scrapped all the old planes after ww2. [Show as slideshow]

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Many of the small towns or service stations have a few strange things to attract customers in along Route 66. [Show as slideshow]  

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This is on of the towns the Movie Cars was based around and the town has got in on the fun with plenty of the movie’s characters being seen around the town. [Show as slideshow] 1 2 3 ►

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We planned to have two nights in Williams because Thursday we had a train ride booked to the Grand Canyon, but the Government put a end to that and wouldn’t let anyone in the park due to the Government Shutdown. This is the first time we have had any issues. We decided to cancel the […]

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Heaps of C grade road side attractions, dodgy hotels and some great old signs.  The place is so crap. but so good. [Show as slideshow] 1 2 3 ►

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We arrived in Kingman heading along Route 66 towards Las Vegas. [Show as slideshow]

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