Bryce to Boulder, Utah to Las Vegas, Paso Robles and Salinas, CA

GPS Mistake?

We spent the night after Bryce in Boulder, Utah which was highly recommended by the Lonely Planet guide book. There was an interesting Anasazi museum there and the trip through  the Escalante and Grand Staircase areas was beautiful, although the winding road was a white knuckle ride exactly two hours in the wrong direction. The Boulder Mountain Lodge was pleasant but probably not quite as great as the book promised. So we were excited to finally arrive  in Las Vegas, although we did not expect our car's GPS to direct us to the establishment in the photo. "You have reached your destination," Gina, as we called her, said.  (Marion asked me several times if I had bribed her.) We did finally arrive at our hotel two blocks away. Vegas was Vegas, a curious assortment of good restaurants, casinos and a very strange collection of people especially the ones who were tooling around in their motorized wheelchairs and pouring their money into slot machines. We ate dinner at a very good Thai restaurant, Lotus of Siam, recommended by Jenny. It was the best Thai food that we had ever tasted.

Steinbeck Museum
Salinas, CA

On Charlie and Saville Marsh's recommendation, after spending the night in Paso Robles, CA and having a great meal at Artisan, recommended by Saville, we stopped at the Steinbeck Museum in Salinas. It proved to be a very interesting stop. It contained memorabilia from Steinbeck's life as well as video clips from some of the movies and plays that were based on his books. We also had lunch at his childhood home, two blocks away, which has been restored and contains a restaurant staffed mostly by volunteers.

Steinbeck's Custom RV

He traveled the country in this truck while he was writing Travels with Charley.

RV Interior