Buffets & Burros

It's been a fairly quiet week, but I'm doing an update before we head off into the wilds of Nevada & no WiFi. We have been enjoying the lovely weather, highs of 24-26 & sunny until today which now looks like rain. We are in Bullhead City, Arizona which is right across the river from Laughlin, Nevada. The RV park has a hot tub - guess where Robin is, and a gym which we both have actually used! It also has cable TV but we are proud to say that we have not turned on the TV that we brought even once. The TV doesn't get to come on vacation next year either.

We checked out Laughlin - we found the info magazine, figured out which casinos give you $5 free play for signing up for their player cards & those are the ones we went to. We also received 2 T-shirts & a travel mug for our efforts. I am down $18, but had some fun, Robin declined to "waste" his money. We also checked out the buffets - 3 in fact in 3 days (rather embarrasing to say). You can't go wrong for dinner buffet for $6 or lunch 2 for $8. Laughlin doesn't have quite the glitz of Vegas, but it's also not nearly so crowded.

We had a great visit with Mary & Gary, old friends from Two Hills & a longtime co-worker of mine. They are lucky enough to have a place here is Bullhead City and spend the winter here.

Today we went on a road trip to Oatman, Arizona, an old gold mining town on Route 66. It was a lovely drive through the mountains, very scenic. The town consists mainly of souvenir shops - Route 66 stuff, jewelry, native arts & crafts & lots of motorcycle stuff. Thier signature thing is that there are many wild burros who wander through the town, waiting to be fed burro food (of course also sold in most shops). They are the descendants of pack mules used in the gold rush days. The babies have a sticker on their foreheads that states "Don't feed me anything please". Very cute. They also had a "gunfight" on main street at noon - kinda hokey, but it's a fund raiser for the Shriners.

We are leaving here in the morning, headed to Vegas, but hoping to mainly bypass it - need to pick up a proper Honda roof rack so we are ready for the kayak we are buying in Hood River, Oregon. After Vegas we are heading north to Twin Falls, Idaho along state hiways but not big interstates. We have it on good authority that it's a good route. This way we get home sooner, we are at the point that home sounds good.
Getting home also means that we then get to head out to Alberta in April to see the kids!
Pictures: casino in Laughlin & the lights at night, then pics of our trip to Oatman.

Still lovin it!