Tuesday 8th May
The free breakfast at Lake Havasu (cereal, banana, milk and coffee) was
fine but everything was in polystyrene plates, bowls and cups, and plastic
knives forks and spoons !! On the road
by 8.15am, you can tell we were keen to leave this town!!
There were some nicer settlements a little further south on
the Colorado River near Parker, but mostly it was very bland and boring desert
(including sandstorms) much of the way to LA. But on these desert freeways we
listened a lot to a talking book about ”Underground London”interspersed with
Abba, The Eagles, bit of Leonard and BBC on national public radio when we could find a station
Since we had no GPS in western US we had planned our route
on freeways across the middle
of LA to LAX quite carefully, firstly on 10 right
through to 605, then south to 105 and straight
through to airport and we did it
with ease, just one small hiccup
actually finding the Hertz lot
to return the car. Easily solved by asking a
young person walking down footpath with an
iPhone map!!
Once found the Hertz experience at LAX was light years ahead
of Santa Rosa. Checking car back
in was done by scanning bar code just inside
driver’s door then man drove us off to our hotel
( LA Marriot) without us
having to get our gear out.
Hotel was good, had nice large ground floor room overlooking
pool (thanks Jo), seemed a
shame to only
staying one night and leaving early. I (H) had great swim in pool and spa pool
with fire hydrant strength jets.
Ed and Julian picked us up from hotel about 7 pm and we had
cheerful Thai meal at nearby restaurant.
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