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- RIZ
Ok, I'm driving from LA to Vegas Friday next week, and I'd like to spend the night somewhere along the way. Somewhere scenic would be cool, even if it's a little out of the way, then I can finish the drive to Vegas the next day.
Can you LA peeps please give me some local knowledge about where I could stay on the way?
thanks!
- DaveO0
Palm springs is nice and totally not on the way.
- RIZ0
any more advice here puh-lease
- dbloc0
it's not that far of a drive...why not just push on to Vegas?
- RIZ0
ok cool, good to know, cheers
- RIZ0
righto, another question, does anyone here know of some reasonably priced hotels in Santa Monica? There's a couple in the pvn, but those results are mighty old...
- monospaced0
Who sleeps during a Vegas trip?
- oh yeah, and it's a freakin' desert, like dbloc pointed outmonospaced
- dasohr0
make sure to stop by barstow. great town. happy people.
- tedvandell0
There is a really cool place along the way called
Joshua Tree
If you stop anywhere that is the place.
Very cool shit.- bring 'shroomsmonospaced
- lots of them
dasohr - smores or not, joshua tree is one of the most incredible places on earth. no kidding! its beautiful.sea_sea
- akrok0
what "reasonably priced"?, riz. santa monica is pricey in general.
- SteveJobs0
dude, it's like 4 hours.. you stop once to refuel and get a burger at Mad Greek and that's it. no sleeping!
- RIZ0
ok, I get the whole 'no sleeping' vibe now... I'm scared (in a good way)
- dorf0
not about vegas, but still the same feeling.
- Point50
• stop at Zzyzx Rd to take a piss in the dirt right off the off-ramp
• if you stop in Barstow go eat at Muscle Tom's right next to the McDonald's. The food is greasy and average, but last Fall there was a hot skinny Russian chick that worked behind the counter. Barstow ... the land of mysteries.
• Baker - please stop and take a picture next to the World's Tallest Thermometer. I've driven by it at least 100 times and have yet to capture it in photos.
• Victorville ... don't stop.
- mathinc0
^^ Point5 has it.
But yeah RIZ, there is no point to stopping to sleep anywhere in between. It'd be like taking a piss break on your way to the bathroom. Oh and Joshua Tree is not on the way, but take mushrooms with you anyways.
- DaveO0
Pack your U2 if you go to Joshua Tree
- trooperbill0
pretend you're knightrider... that was shot all over there lol.
- bumdrizzle0
'stop at Zzyzx Rd to take a piss in the dirt right off the off-ramp'
or pack some cold beers in the trunk, keep going a mile or so and stop for beers in the middle of the salt plain. awesome spot.
- BaskerviIle0
Just had a look at those place on streetview, love the look of those long, open roads and the little shops and food places along the sides, all in the open desert.
I don't know if it already exists, but I want a website that automatically preloads the images ahead of the direction the you're facing in Streetview, like buffering on streaming video, it would then 'drive' in the direction you're pointing in smoothly because the following images are already loaded. Virtual roadtrips would be sweet, with a music player on the site too.
someone build it!
- you should be able to use the route planner, let it preload and then drive the journey from A to BBaskerviIle