From a food point of view today has been a great success.
American meals are at least twice the size of European means, often with a baffling range of choice.
Today's drive was one of the longest, and probably least attractive, of the whole trip. We found our way through the spider's web of LA Freeways with surprising ease. We unexpectedly passed Edwards Airforce base, but there were no Shuttles returning from space. Reading the guide book at lunch time, I realised that we were a few miles from Calico, a Gold Rush town which tried to thrive for 40 years and was then abandoned. By the time we got back into the car, an hour later, I was feeling concerned about my wife's health, she was very red and seemed to be over heating.