2 nights in Las Vegas and on the road to San Bernardino, CA

After spending two wonderful days with my sister-in-law Terry and her husband Scott we left for California. But while in Las Vegas we went to see the Hoover Dam, ate dinner at a wonder place called the Hofbrauhaus, gambled a little and played Top Golf. 

The Hofbrauhaus was lots of fun, music, entertainment and German food, they even had vegan and vegetarian options. Very interactive with the diners. 

Hoover Dam

Back on the road we went from Las Vegas to Needles, CA stopped to take pictures of the Mojave Desert, some trains, and a Harvey house in Needles, before driving on I-40, instead of route 66 to Barstow.  We didn't drive route 66 because when I looked at the California roads website, it said that parts of it were closed, but I think they haven't updated the site, because we saw people driving off it when we stopped in Ludlow for lunch. 

Charles Schultz used to live in Needles, it is where he created his character Spike. If you look at the mural closely you can see Woodstock sitting with Spike in the car in the mural.

After lunch it was on to Barstow and we did find Route 66 and were happily tooling down the road. Jim put our
next destination into the phone and after a few towns and we could see traffic jams and even the phones GPS said we were on the fastest road, but then boom she put us on 1-15 before we knew why and then kept giving us alternate routes and the next thing instead of going west on route 66, when we came into San Bernardino we were going East on 66. She took us an hour out of our way, trying to get us to the Wigwam Motel. Jim kept saying why are we going in the wrong direction. We finally made it, but the GPS apparently will not allow us to stay the course on 66.