2024 WB Day 18 - Rejoining America's Main Street

Not far from Las Vegas is Goodsprings.

Home of the Pioneer Saloon since 1913, which exudes everything cowboy.

For us it’s breakfast and that takes us back to a time when no one worried about the landfill created from plastic cutlery, and polystyrene plates and cups.

Passing through Primm on the border with California on the i15 is also a reminder of days when other states clambered to the bright lights of Nevada’s Las Vegas.

In sharp contrast is the bright reflection of the solar farms, concentrating the solar source of light to help produce electricity needed to keep California’s population running.

After two days away, we rejoined Route 66 at Peggy Sue’s Diner…

…but it was too hot for their famous curly fries.

Across the road, lines of army tanks were being loaded for transportation to who knows where.

And a marker near Barstow confirms we were back on track.

A quick stop at the weird Bottle Tree Ranch, begs the question, why hasn’t someone smashed all the bottles…

… as would certainly be the case in our part of the world.

Turbo gAve us the good oil at Cali R66 Museum in Victorville…

…and the girls jumped from the pace of their modern steads to the ‘peace’ of a Combi!

Lunch was the famous Cali In N Out burger, established, in a similar simple serve vein as the Golden Arches.

The first McDonalds sign still exists, but without the arches, after Ray Croc purchased the rights back in the 1950s from the McDonald brothers.

Our overnight resting place before reaching our final destination is Mission Inn in Riverside…

A pool to temper the souring mercury…

…and a night time wander through the magnificent and varied architecture Frank Millar created back in 1876 when he established it as a quaint adobe boarding house.