San Bernardino, CA
On the home stretch!
Tonight we are in a very different motel in San Bernardino, California - really an eastern suburb of LA. It is different because we are in a Teepee – yes - a teepee-shaped room in the Wigwam Motel, a Route 66 icon since 1949. So cool!
Lake Havasu City to LA along old 66 is, sadly, a bit like driving through a 200km long, desert rubbish dump. As the 'burbs' of LA loom in the distance, the highway-side environment becomes littered with wrecked cars, burnt-out shops and the ubiquitous trailer parks that are home to the enormous number of 'working poor'. These are people who will never lounge on their flash speedboats on the edge of Lake Havasu like the hundreds of well-heeled sun seekers we saw yesterday afternoon.
To be frank, if John Steinbeck's Joad family from “The Grapes of Wrath” saw what the edge of the Promised Land of California looks like today, they and hundreds of thousands of Depression dust-bowl migrants would have turned back and taken their chances back home.
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