The Road to Las Vegas

On the road again today, travelling the 200 miles between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Our first stop was in Barstow, where the town is trying to revitalise itself and attract tourists by creating huge murals on the sides of buildings, in the photograph Fiona locates us.

For lunch, we stopped at Peggy Sue's 50s Diner and had a 50s lunch in her restaurant decorated with memorabilia and "humourous" signs.

Later on we stopped at the World's Largest Thermometer which, as you can see, is pretty big.

We arrived in Las Vegas in the late afternoon and were immediately amazed by its scale and architecture. We walked along Las Vegas Boulevard, but all the outside spectacle shows were cancelled due to very high winds (up to 65mph) which also closed some of the bridge walkways between casinos and meant a lot of going the long way round.