Needles to Barstow or a journey across the Mojave Desert

The day was one of changing landscape and the view of trains as they traversed the landscape. Amazing quantity and variety of trains.... there's another train was a fairly common cry during the day.

The variety and colour of plants in bloom across the desert took me by surprise.

Then the strange blooms of the shoetree was something I hadn't heard of nor anticipated but was suitably quirky as are many things on Route 66.


The small towns along the way were varied and continued to amaze that they have survived and/or continued to struggle to exist.