Our last day with the lovely Harley!

We should have probably set of earlier but got caught up in taking some pictures of the Wiener mobile (a massive hot dog on wheels) from the good ol' rt66 days. The owner rents a Wigwam permanently but was still in bed otherwise the lady would have asked him if we could have a ride!

We have completely embraced the American way of living by starting the day with a McDonald's breakfast! We pressed onto Santa Monica which was a long journey through lots of traffic lights which we were not used to, and most of which were red causing us to take a very long time. But we did it, our trusty steed took us to the end of Santa Monica Blvd which is technically the end of route 66. Craig stayed with the bike and Clare went to find the brass plaque marking the end, when she returned we found a parking spot and went onto Santa Monica pier the spiritual end of rt66, here there is a stand there which we've been told about and which appears in many tourist photos so we got a couple of pics of our own.

Now it's over we still had a Harley to get rid of and a hotel to get to, but the journey didn't need to be on rt66 anymore, so we found a McD's for WiFi and set the Asus up for Google Navigation to Glendale Harley dealership. Clare wasn't keen on holding it but we managed to get there after fuelling up for the final time and just in time for the 4pm drop off. We explained why the bike was a bit beaten up and gave the report details before having a coffee (all dealers we found had comfy seats with hot and cold drinks supplies for customers). We realised that we didn't have any, so got a couple of pictures of Clare on a nice shiny bike and on our broken one before leaving.

With some help from the rental girl and her computer we had found that it would only take one train and one bus to get back to LAX airport where our hotel was located. As a result we decided to experience some more of American travel and walked to the train station.

There ends our route 66 trip, we may have a little update from LA as we have a couple of rest days time but in case we don't hope you've enjoyed the trip as much as us.

Craig and Clare
Route 66 "The Mother Road"
Thurs 30 Aug 2012 to Tues 11 Sept 2012