Greetings from Blythe, where we will be staying tonight. Just an inconspicuous town and just a stopover for us on the way to Los Angeles. This morning we drove to Phoenix. This stop was planned from the beginning because of a larger hunting, outdoor, and fishing store. Called Cabela's. I've been looking forward to this for a while and I wasn't disappointed. It's more like a trade show than a store :-)
After that, we continued through Phoenix and then to a neighborhood called Scottsdale. That's basically the upscale district. We were in a huge shopping center where they really had EVERYTHING. Today we also (actually for the first time since we've been here) indulged ourselves. At least when it comes to food and calories. While in the past few days we usually had a sandwich for lunch, today we went to the food court of the mall. Delicious pizza, fries with cheese and bolognese sauce, marshmallows covered in chocolate, and small cinnamon rolls topped with icing sugar, supersize Pepsi... all very tempting. I believe the average daily calorie intake was already exceeded after that :-) By the way, the mall was the biggest one I've ever seen. You could really cover kilometers there. The weather and the landscapes have changed again. It's really crazy... you drive only 100km and everything is completely different again. It's now 40 degrees and everything is getting greener. And suddenly there are huge cacti everywhere. Easily 5m tall: Otherwise, we just continued on our way to LA and on the highway, we saw the strangest things again. There are a few things here that I still don't quite understand, like the 'license plate' thing. And there are also burst tires lying everywhere on or at the edge of the highway. Not even 100m go by without a tire or at least shreds of a tire. Also, quite a few campers are towing their cars. I don't even know if something like that would be allowed where we're from.Oh yeah, and the trucks here are driving really fast too. Sometimes when you're only driving at 110km/h, the trucks just pass you by (at easily 120km/h). Quite fast, considering that they usually only drive around 80km/h where we're from. So the day wasn't that eventful - except for our stomachs :-) . It will only get more exciting again tomorrow / the day after tomorrow in Los Angeles. There are several things on the agenda that we want to see. Oh yeah, this is what it looks like behind the scenes when the blog is being created :-) By the way, I also took the opportunity and the good internet here to add a few more photos from yesterday in the gallery. # Until tomorrow,Dean + Luisa
