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<\/a><\/p>\nTop speed–20 mph with some places marked 15 and a few at 10 mph.\u00a0 A great ride!<\/p>\n
Oatman, AZ is famous for its free roaming burros.\u00a0 We saw 8 or 10 and photographed a few.\u00a0 Otherwise, the town is mostly a tourist mecca.\u00a0 Moving on to, the next place on our list was Needles, CA.\u00a0 We photographed some saw tooth shaped mountains and the “Welcome to California” sign as we crossed the Colorado River.<\/p>\n
There was a noticeable difference in the arid climate between Oatman and Needles–much drier and the vegetation changed again.\u00a0 Different cacti!<\/p>\n In Needles, we took a few photos and took an alternative route through town on a second pass following the instructions from our maps.\u00a0 If doing it again, I’d say these few blocks don’t add any value to the trip.\u00a0 On the way out of town, we had some trouble finding the route and took CA-95 N heading toward Nevada.\u00a0 We figured it out after 8 miles and turned around to get back on the route.\u00a0 When we got back to the correct turnoff, it was marked going south, but there was no sign on the north bound side.<\/p>\n This put us in the direction of Chamblis and Amboy.\u00a0 This was where Joyce had staked out a geocaching expedition in the Mohave Desert.\u00a0 It’s a special kind of cache called geoart.\u00a0 From the map, there were a lot of geocaches 0.1 mile apart that formed the US highway shield, two “6” figures and the letters RT at the top.\u00a0 Just like the signs.\u00a0 There was no thought of doing all of these, but we did about 24 in about 2-1\/2 hours.\u00a0 Walking around the Mohave Desert between 1:30 and 4:00 PM was a hot experience!\u00a0 We had plenty of water, food in case we got lost, walking sticks and a GPSr.\u00a0 We found all but one on the circular part of one “6” but didn’t want to continue\u00a0 to finish the 6 because of time in the sun and heat.<\/p>\n Gary in the desert!<\/p>\n The Mohave Desert….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh, yeah, speaking of heat, here’s how the day went:<\/p>\n 9:30 AM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a090 degrees We had 5-60 air conditioning until about 12:30 when we turned the A\/C on for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n While walking around in the Mohave, we lost site of the car for most of the time.\u00a0 It would be easy to get totally lost within about 0.25 miles.\u00a0 On the way back after finding the last cache, I kept thinking what if we can’t find the car (failed to mark it’s location on the GPSr when we started out) or it went missing.\u00a0 Fortunately, the first cache we found was within sight of the car.<\/p>\n I also found that I could “smell” the heat because the air was different and the arid climate changed the ability to smell.\u00a0 It was probably 113 to 114 during our caching experience.\u00a0 Saw a few lizards, a jackrabbit and very little else.\u00a0 The vegetation was also limited.\u00a0 We had a good time and drank all the water doing this.<\/p>\n After the cache, we had a cold beer in the car while the A\/C ran to cool off the car.\u00a0 Plus a few crackers for sustenance to get us to Roy’s Caf\u00e9 in Amboy, CA.\u00a0 We found a cache at Roy’s and had a Route 66 Rootbeer each before continuing on our way to Twentynine Palms, CA where planned to spend a couple of nights and see Joshua Tree National Park before returning to the historic Route 66 drive.<\/p>\n Arrived in Twentynine Palms about 5:30 and checked in to the Best Western, unloaded the car and sat back to soak up some cool while watching the news, Wheel and Jeopardy.\u00a0 Maybe the pool will be next!<\/p>\n No pictures of the desert rats though!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we knew we’d be crossing the Mohave Desert once we left Kingman, AZ.\u00a0 And what a day it was!\u00a0 As we expected hot weather today, we decided to leave earlier than most of the other days.\u00a0 So, we were up, had coffee & breakfast, packed the car and were on our way at 7:30 … Continue reading Desert Rat Day!!<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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