The Calico Ghost Town, probably the largest intact Ghost Town in America, supposedly. Although it's now a tourist attraction so I don't quite see how it's deserted. Anyway, it was a few miles down the road and it was an attraction on Route 66. First, after we were ready and had taken the tent down in the sweltering heat we set off for the post office to send a post card to Marie's dad. We had a jack in the box breakfast again because it was cheap and then we set ...

Today we would be returning to the Mojave Desert to do a spot of trekking as we weren't waking up there as we had planned to. We packed our tent away in Needles and did some washing, fresh clothes, always a bonus. Then we set off for Needles town centre to get petrol and breakfast. We were having jack in the box for the first time, they do a big breakfast for 3 dollars, so we gave that a go. It was really nice, bacon, egg, pancakes and hash brown. Couldn't compla...