Today we woke up after a crazy night's sleep. We put it down to the heat. It meant we had a bit of a slow start and didn't leave our hotel until 10.30, after our last Best Western breakfast of the trip! We'll miss Best Weatern breakfasts. They are great, especially the waffles! Today should have been an easy day - just 150 miles from Barstow to Santa Monica and the end of Route 66. I set off driving and our first stop was the Harvey house railroad depot in Barst...

Leaving Las Vegas meant we were reunited on a long term basis again with Sandy! Having only used her once in Vegas to get to the outlet shopping centre, she'd had chance to rest up for a few days in The Venetian self-park. There were a few more bags to fit into the car than we had brought to Vegas, so our first challenge was to play boot Jenga, trying to fit everything in without toppling over! Thankfully it all fit into the car and we set off into the desert. Li...

Today we got to take some time out, reach out to our inner child, and have fun at Disneyland, Anaheim. We started the day with breakfast room service, very extravagant but we decided we wanted to start the day with a good feed. Very excited we set off on our way. Jo had decided she was going to brave the LA freeways and took the wheel, leaving me to negotiate the directions! A couple of freeways and 40 minutes later we found ourselves parking in The Mickey and fr...

Yesterday was our last day in Vegas and was also our wedding anniversary. This is really where planning for our mammoth trip started - coming to Vegas for 5 days for our honeymoon (albeit a year late). From there it got extended in both directions (by several thousand miles). It is crazy to think we're only halfway through our trip. We've done so much and it feels like we've been here for a month already! We had an early start (6am to be precise) because we book...

The rest of yesterday was long. We went out with the aim of getting to the Luxor hotel, right up the south end of the strip. The plan was to get the monorail from Hurrahs down to MGM then the tram from Excalibur to The Luxor. First of all we wanted to explore Treasure Island, visit the pirate ships, where they no longer do their show, then check The Mirage out, to go and see the Dolphins. Once we got over to the Mirage, an attack of hunger came so we got a Carneg...