What time is it there?!

After the Grand Canyon we drove to Kingman for our nights rest and recuperation. Having done quite a bit of interstate driving over the preceding few days we decided to go back in time and travel along Route 66.

This is the original Chicago to Los Angeles road although much of it has now been replaced by the I-40. The longest remaining part is between Seligman and Kingman and we cruised with the best of them (well, some kids on motorised scooters anyway). We stepped back in time at the Snow Cap Cafe which has apparently not changed in the last 40 years. It was once a really popular hang out on the route and still is good, although the owners gags are decidedly back with the cafe’s origins!! Kingman itself was nice enough although it took forever to find a Supermarket to get some dinner!

The next day we took a little trip to Lake Havasu City to see ‘London Bridge’ ...... we were not really sure what to expect as the guide books had said that an old bridge from London was dismantled and rebuilt in the middle of the desert!!!!!

Sure enough, there it was stretching over part of the lake, a real piece of London now residing in the desert. They had tried to make the pavement cafe’s and shops resemble London but there were some MAJOR things wrong ......
1) The sun was shining.
2) There were no shopping trolleys in the water.
3) People were swimming and there was no fear of nasty diseases.
4) The tourist tat shops aiming to be in a British style were blaring out US radios stations ...hummmm!

The bridge was moved and rebuilt between 1968 and 1971. Strange thing is that it looks almost new. With the totally dry weather in the desert, there is nothing to make it look weathered, no lichen growing ........ which kind of ruined the effect. Anyway, curiosity answered, we were on our way.