We awoke to find some Elk feeding outside our room again so the day was started with the camera clicking away again.
Today we are heading to Las Vegas so it was time to pack the bikes and head off. The day started out quite cool as we are still over 6,000 feet but as we headed down to Williams it got a lot warmer. Before too long we were off the main highway and on Route 66 again. This route is going through a resurgence as people are realizing that it is so much a part of the history of travel from West to East and who knows how long it is going to survive modern changes.
We stopped at a town called Segman which has a lot of memorabilia dating back to when Route 66 was in its heyday (See photo's).
From there we headed to the Hoover Dam and boy did it get hot. We saw the traffic build up and thought that it was because all traffic has to go through a security checkpoint bur when we went through we realized that there had been an accident earlier and the traffic so bad that it took an hour to cross the wall. In the meantime the temperature reached 126 degrees (approx 45c) and as we were stopping and starting it felt like we were in a furnace. Kerry was almost passing out in the heat.
Once we were through the dam it was a straight run in to Vegas and as soon as we arrived at our hotel we hit the bar for a couple of beers before we checked in.
This has taken years to build.
Elk feeding outside our room.
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