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Photos and Descriptions
Barstow, CA is a big railroad switching center. Trains coming
westward are resorted to all points in southern California.
Barstow also has a
railroad museum with a Harvey House. There are
several locomotives, cabooses and other equipment.
We weren't able to go through the railroad museum itself, it opens late
on Sundays.
However, there is a Route-66 museum/gift shop which was a lot of fun.
Amboy, CA was a stop along Route-66. Now, it is a wide spot in a
long, lonely, empty road through the desert.
There is a gasoline station and a restaurant. However, the
restaurant does not have any prepared foods, only snack stuff.
They are planning on renovating, for the nth time, and will begin with
reopening the restaurant and motel.
It's a sparsely traveled road so I wish them luck.
We gassed up in
Needles, CA and sought a place for a bit to eat.
We were directed to
Juicy's River Cafe.
What a fun place it turned out to be with a waitress that was an
absolute delight.
She directed us to a route to get to our next destination,
Oatman, that
saved us many miles of bad road.
Oatman is a little town. long forgotten in the middle of nowhere that
somehow manages to attract tourists such as ourselves.
It used to be supported by mining of various minerals, but now tourism
is the chief industry.
Oatman is noted for the federally protected wild burros that wander
freely around the area.
They have learned that the tourists will feed them carrots, purchased at
a dollar per from the local stores.
We got there as the stores were closing. Closed store, no more
carrots. The burros know this and soon leave.
RM had a mission: Plumber Guy needs to be photographed in fun and
interesting locations.
The road from Oatman to
Kingman is beautiful. But the first half
is a challenge to ride. It is extremely curvy and climbs sharply
up and down the mountains.
15 miles an hour is the top speed for the first 20-25 miles. But
it has tremendous scenery and is well worth doing, once.
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