We broke up the 3 hour drive to the Grand canyon from the ranch, by taking in some more '66' sights, the museum (had to be done!) and another roadside diner 'Mr D'zs' for some pretty good burgers and sweet potato fries. We finally arrived at the very busy and very cold grand canyon at dusk and realised we hit one of the World's most famous national monuments on not only a weekend, but thanksgiving weekend, so it was pretty busy to say the least. After taking in a...

So leaving Santa Barbara, with our new map in hand, we headed off in search of route 66, but all we found was rain, rain and more rain, in what was the worst weather we had seen so far on this trip. It was not our day as we ended up taking a few wrong turns and got pretty lost, zig zagging in and out of a rather rough area of LA. After refuelling at the highly recommended in and out burger, we arrived at the very random town of Barstow to crash for the night, but...