We visited Joshua Tree in the morning, hiking a 4 mile trail to an abandoned mine in the mountains. The trail was covered in icy snow, and we haven’t hiked for a while, so it was a little hard, but it was nice to get back at it. There are flat expanses filled with Joshua trees and these mountains of tiny rocks.
Joshua Tree was nice, but we didn’t really enjoy most of southern California, so we were happy when we made it to Arizona. Our first stop was Lake Havasu City, which back in the 1960s bought London Bridge from the city of London for a couple million dollars and relocated it to Arizona for another few million dollars. So now London Bridge sits in the middle of the desert, and the city has done a really good job building up a nice walkable waterfront area with lots of restaurants. The bridge itself is quietly stately (I was expecting something like the wildly colorful Tower Bridge), but I didn’t get any pictures because it was pretty dark. We're big fans of little towns putting up crazy sights to attract tourism (see Corn Palace; also World's Largest Ball of Twine), so in appreciation we added a little bit of money to the economy via the purchase of microbrews and a flu shot for myself (just regular, they wouldn't give me h1n1).
We drove on a bit, stopping in Kingman for the night, where we had our first In and Out Burgers.
-M
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