We set off this morning on the 1st proper day of our roadtrip from LA.
We had a drive through Joshua Tree National Park (but not quite to
Twentynine Palms) – see photo, and then continued through the desert
to Blythe for lunch. Afterwards the news broke all of a sudden on the
radio that Micheal Jackson had died!! Very, very wierd.

Throughout the desert, into Arizona, past tall cacti, endless MJ songs
played on the radio all the way to Pheonix.

We arrived just outside of town at our Best Western in Scottsdale to
cops in the lobby, attending to some sort of disturbance in the hotel.
Dispite that we have a very nice room with an enormous bed.

The TV is full of MJ news (and very occasional news about the death of
Farrah Fawcett) so we went out for a really nice tea just down the
road at The Orange Table.

Tomorrow we move further East…you can’t BEAT IT!!