Driving In America

So we've hit the part of the adventure where we have a car. They gave us an upgrade so we have this big comfy new car a Chevy Malibu. When we saw it I was a bit scared, I figured I'd have enough trouble driving on the "other" side of the road ( Americans don't like it when i call it the wrong side), on the other side of the car, with all the controls backwards, and on those weird spaghetti highways...

Well I wasn't wrong. Driving out of Vegas onto the highway sounded simple, until the highway split 3 times and was jam packed with cars. Of course EVERYONE leaves Vegas on the 2nd January. It was highly entertaining, and I don't think would have been OK without Benny.

I made the joke that together we were 1 competent driver. I could steer, brake & indicate, but he had to read all the road signs & head check. Funny stuff.

It took a while but I got the hang of it, and all is OK now. We got stuck in 2 hours worth of bumper to bumper traffic trying to cross the hoover dam. I drove on ice for the first time, though snow, at 75MPH on all the highways ( 120kms as the speed limit), drove the south rim of the Grand Canyon ( that is a whole other story though) and today we're headed to route 66. We are backtracking but it was dark by the time we got there the other day. The longest running bit of it still as it was is from Kingman to Seligman - so that's what we are going to do today.

The scenery on all the drives has been remarkably diverse, we've gone though desert ( no surprises there) lush mountains, Some covered in tree's, others in snow, rocks, cacti, etc. The Hoover Dam was pretty cool, but perhaps we would have enjoyed in more had the bumper to bumper traffic not killed the anticipation. And I don't think anything will be able to top driving & looking over the edge into the grand canyon.

Hopefully today is as great as the rest has been.

Bye!