A
free breakfast in the Hotel and we went back to the room only to find both
electronic had stopped working. Noel trudged back to reception to get his
changed but that didn’t work either and then Jennifer’s original key card
worked. I never can understand these things.
Anyway
we left Barstow in the bright sunshine and blue sky and headed east on route 40
which at times touched and ran parallel the old famous route 66, The road was
reasonably empty and mostly trucks but wound its way up mountains and down
again, climbing several thousand feet and then dropping back. There were signs
on the road to watch out for animals of various types including donkeys. We
needed a break around lunchtime and stopped in a town called Needles where we
found a so called famous restaurant called Juice’s Famous Bar and restaurant.
We both had a light scrambled egg with ham and hash browns and toast and a
coffee for noel and lemonade for Jen.
Jen
was still suffering quite a bit today from her cold so we found a pharmacy and
purchased some different stuff which we hope will clear her nasal passages and
ears. The going up several thousand feet didn’t help on this but nothing we
could do.
We
crossed the border from California to Arizona and there is a one hour time
difference so we added an hour to our watches. We found an Albertsons Grocery
store and purchased a chicken, ready cooked and the ingredient for a Caesar
salad. We arrived at the Lake Havasu Dunes Hotel, which is mostly Condos and
discovered we did not have the full size kitchen and as they were full up there
was nothing we could do. Never mind but the rooms are a little noisy from road
traffic which we had not realised would be a problem.
In
the evening we had the chicken and salad and a glass of wine. We have been
carrying for the past week three bottles of red wine which one we had originally
brought from the UK and the other two we were due to have on board but due to
Noels health issues, now resolved, we were able to enjoy a nice glass of red
wine.
For
the rest of the evening we watched a film on TV and then a couple of rubbish
American reality programs.
