It is always sad leaving Vegas. Winning lotto and living near Vegas would be pretty cool. The drive to LA is pretty boring. Big freeways the whole way. Only the last 5 k down sunset blvd is not freeway. Staying at best western on sunset blvd. A great spot close to, the viper room, the house of blues, whiskey a go go and several other famous spots. Dropped the car and luggage off and walked down to red rock bar. It is a cool spot on sunset blvd with the balcony o...

The intention is to cruise down to Death Valley or close to, then stop for the night and continue on in the morning. Leaving Reno/Carson City we head south towards Mono lake. It is an amazing landscape, the sides of the road look like the ground exploded up and pushed all this burnt rock up. The road got up to 2540m above sea level which is 300m higher than Australia's highest mountain Mt Kosciuszko. The drive down the I395 was fantastic, we were driving down a ...

Hit the road about 9am heading to Reno. First part of the trip is through the Central Valley farming area up through Fresno and Sacramento. This part of the drive was very flat straight and boring. Most of the way was fruit type farming, pomegranates, strawberries, apples, grapes, pistachios, oranges, blah blah. It was only after Sacramento that it got interesting. Just past Sacramento we stopped at Denny's for lunch. Denny's is a massive chain of Diners over he...

Up early and we head downtown for breakfast. Found a cafe/bar called pinocchio's. Looked very busy so must be good. Once we ordered we noticed that all the people near us had champagne (note 10 am on a Sunday morning). They have an unlimited champagne with breakfast option for $3.95. We should have stayed here another day so we could sample this offer. On the way out of Palm Springs we took Eileen (Karens mum) up to see the Mt San Jacinto Cable Car. It goes from ...

Woke up day two ready to head to Cabazon and the Desert Hills Premium Factory Outlets. Had a few problems with the GPS on the iPhone while trying navigate out of LA, I should have realised it was like Microsoft and rebooted it straight away and problem fixed. Time to buy a cheap one for here it think. Hit the LA freeways in the direction of palm springs. Driving on the freeways while getting accustomed to left hand drive is interesting. An hour and a half later ...