Route 66 Day 2 - Needles CA to Flagstaff AZ
Today I drove a route that is a MUST DRIVE if you are the kind of person that loves road trips. The main portion of my day was spent on the longest continuous stretch of the original Route 66 that is still in place - From Topock AZ to the Crookton Rd entrance of I-40. Desert Travel After passing through the very small town of Golden Shores (don't miss the old POLARIS silo just south of town)you have a 20 mile trip across the Mojave Desert. The eastern edge of the Mojave Desert along Route 66 The Mojave Desert spreads from the San Gabriel Mountains into through to Kingman Arizona. One of the interesting things is that this is monsoon season in Arizona, so the desert has been getting rain. This has made the desert green. The plants were drinking up that rain water and spouting new growth signs of life in the desert green leaves Add caption new growth on the cacti your author examining the cacti Oatman AZ The next town you get to is O...