Williams AZ to Needles CA

On the road early after a small breakfast. I bit of highway, then off on to the original 66 for most of the day. First on flat scrub land, cows about, and stopping in the tourist town of Seligman for a cup of coffee. We checked out the shops and by the time we headed out the place was flooded with tourist who spilled out of the busses. Russian, French and who knows what else. It's amazing, but on most of this trip the I've been the only American who seems to be exploring the Mother Road, everyone else is European.

After stopping at an old time gas station for a look around and water we were buzzing through Kingman and onto the Oatman Highway. It started off as a flat desert road, then up and up and up, tight twisties through various colored rock, 15 MPH at times. No guard rails, just steep drop offs. Add to that the 'Look out for Animals' sign we saw (and the 3 donkeys that ran in front of me across the road right before the climbs) and it was an exhilarating scary ride. Silly me though didn't have the GoPro on, but Tracy got some footage.

We stopped in Oatman, an old town that is now for the tourists. We had amazing buffalo burgers at the Oatman Inn & Restaurant, then checked out the donkeys and shops while waiting for the shootout taking place in the middle of the road to be over so we could get on our way.

Once out of the elevations the temperature kept rising, at one point reaching 108! We jumped back on the highway and over the boarder into our last state - California. By the time we got to the hotel in Needles we were dripping and couldn't wait to get into the nice air conditioned room.