19-OCT-2007
Gas station at Roy's
The gas pumps are no longer working...
19-OCT-2007
Amboy Post Office
Does it look like an outpost?
20-OCT-2007
Laughlin's Harrah Hotel Casino
We chained our 3 bikes together in a single parking spot for the night.
20-OCT-2007
Laughlin, Nevada - street scene
Laughlin is much much nicer than Las Vegas. There is no bumper-to-bumper traffic and no big crowd. People here are nice. They talk to you and they smile. Unlike Vegas that's becoming a city of automatons and a city of artificial fakes.
Beside the people, Laughlin is closer to nature. The Colorado river runs through the center of Laughlin and lots of hotels are on the water front, with quiet beaches and fishes swimming around.
20-OCT-2007
Laughlin, Nevada - Street Scene
This is downtown Laughlin at around 9:30am on a Saturday morning. Nice, huh?
In Vegas, you would be bumping people all over the place...
Day 2 - Laughlin, Nevada to Prescott, Arizona - 290 miles
This was the actual route we took. Again, from Kingman, we took Route 66 to Ash Fork before we got back to highway 40 heading to Flagstaff.
From Flagstaff, we took highway 89 through Sedona, Jerome, redrock canyon then to Prescott where we stayed the night.
On the way to Sedona, the road was surrounded by red rock formation and the view at sunset was just incredible.
The low temperature here was cold at around 40s at nights and in the mornings.
20-OCT-2007
Arizona here we come!
The first thing I noticed after crossing the Arizona border was that the Arizona drivers seemed to be a lot better than the California drivers. They are more courteous and they don't drive 2 feet from your rear fender. When we rode at the speed limit, they either kept a good distance or passed us on the other lane when possible. I was impressed.
In California, anybody rides at speed limit will get run over by cars for sure...
20-OCT-2007
Route 66 at Kingman, Arizona
Vu was giving a thumbs up :-)
20-OCT-2007
Sandstorm! should we turn around...?
As soon as we crossed over to Arizona, one thing we noticed immediately was the wind! Wind was strong and didn't seem to let go.
20-OCT-2007
Valentine, Arizona?
I couldn't even find the name on my AAA map...
This is a place where they keep the lions, tigers, cougars in their natural habitats. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to walk through the preserve...