Sunday - The final push into LA

The final push day to get into LA by late afternoon. Interstate 15 takes you through several pretty spectacular rock canyons.
The hightlight of our day was stopping over in the Virgin River canyon- which is actullay located in the extreme NW coner of Arizona. We parked the truck on an exit ramp and took an hour walk through an abandoned state campgouund and down to the river’s edge. A still-signed interpretive trail taught me the name of the major vegetation- Joshua trees and Creosote bushes. It was well over 100 degrees on our walk at 9 am—probably would have been a good idea to take some water with us! I was very red faced when we returned to the truck—but the AC brought my temp back down quick enough.
After the walk there was more desert to cross, then we cut right through the middle of Las Vegas, crossed some more desert and crossed a mountain range to drop into the LA basin. All Hot-hot- hot. We had the truck running with the AC on from Our Virgin River stop on Sunday until we stopped at the top of the Grapevine leaving LA on Tuesday night.
Anyway, Sunday was a shower night for us. We also walked to the Ontario Mills shopping center about a mile from the tuckstop for a nice dinner and some window shopping.