We stopped and Denny's for some food although we had no idea whether it was lunch or dinner or breakfast. They talk about everything being big in the US. The menu was full on. Big and fried and cheesy. Traditional burger later we ask for a takeaway to put the leftovers in and hit the road before we fell asleep. 3 hours till Vegas.

So we land into LAX and find another big benefit to being at the pointy end of the plane - you get to the start of the customs and border control area before the other 200 people on the plane! It was all pretty smooth and LAX is really well organized. We found the zone to wait for the Thrifty mini van to take us to the hire car place. But that's where the easy stopped. Thrifty was a nightmare. Wrong info given, told we could have the specially requested Dodge Ch...