Day 14: Barstow CA to Santa Monica CA. The grand finale. The last 155 miles of my road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles on the historic Route 66

Postcard from Barstow, California. 241 miles in a oven. I left early to avoid the expected heatwave but it wasn’t early enough.Today’s leg started with some series of nervous narrow turns, in and out on the mountains leading to the ghost town of Oatman, now a kind of Disneyland for western movie lovers. After that, the Route 66 enters California, skirting the southern part of the Mojave desert and it is just nothingness, lizards crossing the roads and burning temperatures. Kinda beautiful. One more sleep to the grand finale. Driving from Kingman to Barstow Cheat Sheet Accommodation in Barstow, CA Where to eat and what to see between Kingman, AZ…

That time I had an hot dog and a milkshake in the desert

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"He ran for three years, two months, fourteen days, and sixteen hours. And just like that, his running days were over...."

That day I did a laundry in an empty, ghostly automatic laundromat in the southern Utah desert...

Breaking Bad nostalgia time anyone?

That day I was stranded in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico...

Half way from Chicago to LA

Everything is bigger in Texas...

That day I drove by a whale. In Oklahoma. Wait, what?

When you need a beer but everything is closed