USA Road Trip » needles http://www.gregspurgin.com/usa-road-trip Judy and Gregs trip across the USA Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:09:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Day 1 – Los Angeles to Needles http://www.gregspurgin.com/usa-road-trip/travel/day-1-los-angeles-to-needles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=day-1-los-angeles-to-needles http://www.gregspurgin.com/usa-road-trip/travel/day-1-los-angeles-to-needles/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:17:31 +0000 http://www.gregspurgin.com/usa-road-trip/?p=5 We arrived in Los Angeles about 9:00am, after a long 13.5 hour flight from Melbourne. We hired our car from Alamo, and then proceeded to get slightly lost leaving the airport. We eventually made it to a BestBuy to buy Virgin wireless broadband from Virgin, and a GPS.  The it was off to Walmart, [...]]]> We arrived in Los Angeles about 9:00am, after a long 13.5 hour flight from Melbourne. We hired our car from Alamo, and then proceeded to get slightly lost leaving the airport. We eventually made it to a BestBuy to buy Virgin wireless broadband from Virgin, and a GPS.  The it was off to Walmart, guided by the GPS (very easy). We started off with an American voice telling us where we should be going in miles, but Greg found an Aussie voice who can tell us where to go in kilometres, so it feels a lot more familiar!

After getting supplies from Walmart, we headed off eventually joining the I-40 heading east across Mojave Desert to a desert town called Needles, population 5,500. We’re still in California, just across the border from Arizona. We arrived in Needles at 7:30pm. We had been awake about 36hours, so it was time to rest. Our very long Thursday had started in Adelaide at 4.45am, and finished in the US at 10pm.

Judy in the USA road trip car.

 

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