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Published: August 3rd 2008
Would you wash you car here?
Thought about it but no.....Before we left Vegas, we had a quick bet for Joe - $20 on roulette, he came away with $10. Then we had the task of trying to get everything in the car - Oh yeah did I forget to mention we bought a suitcase?! Luckily 10 minutes later we were on our way, with the boot absolutely jam packed.
We programmed our next hotel into the TomTom - 8 hours it said. A few sighs and and we were off!
We passed through some near derelict towns, and some really pretty ones. There were a few scary moments like last year - Visions of films like Wolf Creek, The hills have eyes and wrong turn popping in mine and Joes heads - The fact that Thriller came on the radio didn't help either or the fact that we lost the signal from my mobile for almost 4 hours!!
We passed round the outskirts of Area 51 through towns such as Beatty, Goldfield and Tonopah then it was through Montgomery and through a really pretty town called Wild rose and into California. The hour/hour and half leading up to when we arrived in Mammoth Lakes was a really
How long?
We knew we had a long drive ahead of us but this long??! nice drive - Winding roads, lakes, hardly any vehicles and the Sierra Nevada mountains were pretty cool. The drive in the end actually only took 5 hours and the stereo blasting out the Foo's, a bit of Elvis, Robbie and Now 69 (Joe) helped..!!!
We checked in, My mum and Joe chose to stay in the room, whilst myself and Nige went for a wander. Its a really nice little town. We did see a sign that said 'Do not feed the bears' we actually thought it was in jest but then see the local paper where a woman was mauled to death last week! Anyway - No feeding the bears for us then!! There was a place called the village at Mammoth - full of the usual bars, shops etc. We stayed round near our hotel on Main st though. This also had shops and restaurants - The place kind of reminds me a bit of the old tv show Due South - Doubt many of you remember that!
A couple of hours later, Nige and my mum went to the hotel bar, I joined them a little later, we had a few games of pool, dinner
Rolling hills
Nige overtaking one of the few cars we passed, The route was like this practically the whole way then back to our room - with yet another long drive ahead of us tomorrow. The weather here is 80 in the day but drops to the 40s at night, its a bit of a shock from Vegas but will prepare us for San Francisco!!
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