Bette was AMAZING! Some great songs that I knew and some that I didn't. She really does have a great voice. And she was pretty funny. She told jokes and took the piss out of herself, and some other people ... like Sarah Palin. And she did some funny skits with her 3 back-up singers and a chorus line of dancers (all women) ... Like one where they all wore mermaid tails and pranced around the stage in wheel-chairs. Hilarious! She's tremendously fit and can kick her legs up as far as the chorus girls! I had the BEST SEAT ... in the centre, 5 rows from the front! Almost all of the performance was right in front of me! At the end of the show I went to the stage and shook her hand and was sitting on the steps outside waiting for Linda to come at the end of the show and she walked out the door, so I said Hi and told her the show was great. All up an amazing night.
Caught up with Linda after the show for supper. Food since San Francisco has been pretty grim. I guess that's because it's mostly Mexican, or Mexican inspired, and it just doesn't do it for me. It resembles geriatric food to me ... all mushy ... beans, tomato, cheese, tortillas! I'm craving something crunchy and solid. Maybe today ...
We camped at the Homolovi (the name made me laugh .. I thought it should have been in LA) Camp in the Arizona desert. It was the middle of nowhere and lots of jackrabbits running around and hardly any punters, but it was a good campground with good facilities. I set up and dismantled the tent all by myself ... I'm becoming an ace camper! ... while LEK went for a run both evening and morning. Her hip has mended pretty well and she's a happy runner. We had power on our site and were able to plug the computer in and get more than our 28 minutes of movie. However, we downloaded Revolutionary Road in LA, but, just like magic, it had disappeared when we wanted to watch it. So we had to be happy with 2 episodes of 30 Rock, which is pretty funny.
We've been following historical Route 66 some of the way, but you can't follow it all the way because some of it has been taken over by Highway 40. However we did enjoy Winslow, Arizona, made famous by the Eagles song Take it Easy ... "Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, such a pretty sight to see ...". Full of classic, run down motels and cafes. And we stopped at a cafe in Holbrook, up the road a bit, with lots of Route 66 memorabilia and had great coffee and disgusting apple tortilla things. But there were some great characters there, stuck in the 60s and full of stories of Route 66. Would have liked to buy some memorabilia, like key rings or something, but it was all cheap crap.
We legged it to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and saw some of those great, what I thought were Arizona landscapes, but are actually in New Mexico. And I have since learned that there's a place called Monument Valley in Utah, which we won't get to see, where they have those classic western movie landscapes. We took the back road and stopped at this gorgeous little town called Madrid, with lots of little shops selling Indian jewellery and pottery. Of course, I bought a few things.
Sante Fe is a very cute place, bigger than I imagained, and after much searching on the net, while we had a guinness, LEK found a hotel for $50. We will stay here 2 nights ... and do lots of shopping today, because this holiday has really been quite cheap and we haven't bought very much at all, and then go to Taos, another cute place, where will see lots of pueblos (Indian villages) on the way.
Ahhh ... off to the markets and shops now.
