10-7-17 - (Day 68 - Hangin around Laughlin)

We have ate lunch and dinner at Riverside Casino.  We decided to eat  breakfast at Riverside this morning.  We didn't think this was a big deal, until we waited in line for the first time at the buffet for a table.  We got a great table overlooking the Colorado River.  The breakfast was awesome.

We checked out the classic cars on the third floor of the casino.  It was very impressive.  A lot better than we had expected.

We stopped by the slot machines and broke even again.  Whew!! What one of us loses the other one wins.

We made a tour of the Fisherman Access and walked along the river.  That Colorado River is gorgeous.

We were planning on riding Amber around town today.  That didn't happen in the howling wind and the heavy traffic.

We sat around for a while at camp, got the ole coupon book out. and found a freebie at Aquarius Casino across the street.  Our freebie was 2 decks of cards.  Not exactly what we wanted.

This is one of the most impressive casinos yet in Laughlin.  It was huge, with a lot of interactive slot machines.  Even though, I wasn't very interested in the Bling Bling.

Lauren found a 2 seater, Wonder Women slot machine, after 10 bucks and no beer offers, we walked around.  We watched a truly, cool, volcano slot machine, that was occupied.

We happened on the Heidi's Bier Haus slot machine.  The German Beer Fest is going on  here, might as well get in the spirit and play.

Lauren won 30 free spins in just a few minutes.  The lady playing next to him, said she had been playing for a while and had not won much of anything,  Shortly after, she left her machine.  I stuck $5 in it to see what would happen.  It was a 75 cents minimum bet.  I never go above 50 cents.  Oh well, I spun.

Low and behold. My first spin won me $168.30.  This never happens to me.

I enjoyed the German music from the slot machine a lot better than yesterday when we payed $6 a piece for a beer to listen to the band.  It was a much happier music when you are winning.

We invested $25  and cashed out $280.  $200 was mine.  As I said before, this never happens to me.

La La La La, La, La, La, Heidi won us some MONEY!

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10-6-17 (Day 67 - Riverwalk to Davis Dam)

After a late breakfast, we walked to Davis Dam from the campground.  It was a nice, but windy walk.  We made it back to camp, and decided to check out Pioneer Casino.  We had a some freebies there.  We thoroughly enjoyed our freebies and a little more slot play.  It was a small casino, but very personable.

We headed to the Riverwalk and found the Das Beer Fest.  We stopped for a Bud Light and listened to the 4 man, actually one man and three women band,  The lead woman kept hollering.  I haven't heard that kind of scream since a few years ago when Ferny Kat was a youngster.   Anita went into our bathroom with Ferny Kat laying in the open bathroom window with the curtain closed, and Ferny Kat reached out her paw.  I am pretty sure Ferny Kat still laughs about this today, cause we do.

We saved our free buffets for the seafood buffet at Riverside Casino.  We expected a bland, not so good buffet.  We were wrong.  The only thing that was bland was the boiled shrimp and crawfish.  The crab legs were already sliced open.  They were wonderful.  It's hard to believe the seafood buffet here is so much cheaper than the Gulf  Coast.

Finally tonight, Ferny Kat came out for a short while.  She really don't have much for this place.  I bet it's all the yapping dogs that she does not like, we are tired of them too.

We watched The Band Perry from a distance tonight.  They were playing  at the Laughlin Event Center, which is right below our multilevel campground.  Pretty cool!

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10-5-17 (Day 66 - Route 66)

We were supposed to get up early and ride Amber today.  It didn't happen.  We woke up at 8 am.  Very unusual for us.

                                   On the road, downhill out of this multi-level campground

We took a ride through Bullhead City, Arizona then to Oatman, Arizona on Route 66.  Oatman is another Old West town.  We were greeted by the Donkeys, AKA burros.  It was a very quaint town with some good tasting beef jerky.  We purchased a 3 pack.

                                                                   Oatman

We decided to take a ride up the hill to Sitgreaves Pass. It was a very curvy, steep, drop off, road, with a fantastic view of Bullhead City and Laughlin.  Definitely worth the curvy, switchback road for the view.

Again we continued on Route 66 to Lake Havasu City.  It was more touristy than we wanted, but a nice place.  After circling like a buzzard to find the Visitor's Center, we finally asked where it was.  Shortly after, we were at London Bridge.

I was amazed to learn that this bridge is constructed from the actual London Bridge over the Thames River.  It brings true meaning of the nursery-rhyme song, London Bridge Is Falling Down.

The bridge in London was sinking and blocking river traffic, and in 1968, the founder of Lake Havasu won the bid to buy the bridge blocks and then shipped them to Lake Havasu to reconstruct the London Bridge in Arizona.  The lady at the visitor center told me that the bridge was built first, then the land was dredged to allow the water to flow under it. It is a gorgeous river, under a gorgeous bridge.

We stopped at the Rotary Park and had a nice picnic lunch on the bank of Lake Havasu.  We watched a lot of boats puttering around.  People were enjoying the water today.

                                                                       Lunch view

We had been in Nevada and Arizona today.  We decided to hit California on the way back by Needles Highway.

Within the first mile of California, on I 40, in the late afternoon, 98 degree, hot desert, we were at a standstill for road construction.  About 40 minutes later, and HOT, we finally were moving.

We moved just a few miles past road construction and went through the, every vehicle has to stop for search checkpoint, on the interstate.  We were motioned through.  We have never seen anything like this that was not a border control, and definitely not on an interstate.

Needles Highway was a nice ride, but not like Needles Highway in South Dakota.

We made it back to camp and waited, and waited, and finally the Harvest Moon appeared over the mountain.  It was well worth the wait!

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10-4-17 - (Day 65 - Riverwalk)

We ate a light breakfast this morning and hit the cement.  We decided to check out Riverside Casino, being we are staying at their RV Park.  It is amazing!  It has a lot of restaurants and specialty retail shops, a bowling alley, a 6 plex movie theater, a Kid's Kastle, an arcade, 2 swimming pools, a spa, and a couple of dance clubs.  It has a classic car showroom that we have yet to visit.

We meandered through the casino, got our free slot play for signing up for a players card and realized, there is a Riverwalk.

The Riverwalk is awesome, walking along the clear waters of the Colorado River along the back side of the casinos. They have water taxis to take you across the river to Arizona and they have river cruises.  We decided to take the cruise another day.

We walked as far as we could go on the Riverwalk.   It was a very pretty walk along the river watching the boats and jet-skis.  There were numerous restaurants and bars overlooking the river.  We took the sidewalk on S. Casino Drive back to Riverside Casino.

We ate a buy one get one free buffet at Riverside Casino.  Our table had a gorgeous river front view. It was an awesome buffet for a little bit of nothing.

                                                                Lunch View

We got our free play and played for a while, when we cashed out, we had enough to cover the one buffet.

We have over 8 miles of nice, relaxing, walking in today.

Laughlin has been more than we expected.   It reminds us of the atmosphere of old town Las Vegas when we visited on our 5th Wedding Anniversary.

                                                                  Moon Rising

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10-3-17 - (Day 64 - Laughlin, Nevada)

We made it 150 miles east to Laughlin, Nevada.  We are spending the next week at Riverside Resort RV Park and Casino.  The RV Park has 740 campsites.  It has five floors and we are on the fourth.  This our first campground with floors.

We have a beautiful view of casino row, down town, and the top of the date palm trees. We got a great deal for a week which includes 2 buffets.  Can't beat this.

When we got here, Ferny Kat went to sleep.  She had no desire to go outside.  We sat outside until it was time for dinner, Ferny Kat is still asleep.  Hopefully she will warm up to this campground tomorrow.

It was a hot, windy day.  It felt like we were on the Gulf Coast, except no humidity.  This is the first time in a long time that we have run the air conditioner at night.


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10-2-17 - (Day 63 - Last Day In Pahrump, for now)

It was very sad to hear of all the victims last night in Las Vegas.  We are not that far away from where this happened, about 55 miles.

We didn't do much today.  We took a walk, cleaned the camper, the truck, and Amber.  We made a trip to town to stock up, since it is so convenient.  We saw all the flags at half mast on our way to town. 

I washed a load of clothes today, not because we needed to, but because it was just a few steps away from the camper to an awesome laundry room.  I just couldn't pass it up.

We have really enjoyed our stay at Pair-A-Dice.  Linda. on the welcome committee, came by with a gift for us.  She asked if we had plans to go to Laughlin, Nevada.  Actually we had been thinking, this may be our next stop.  She had a lot of information about the area and a coupon book.  Decision made, we are headed that way tomorrow.

10-1-17 - (Day 62 - Furnace Creek Golf Course, Death Valley, California)

It's been 36 years ago today that we starting dating.  Can't think of a better way to celebrate than to play golf amongst the Date trees at Furnace Creek Golf Course in Death Valley

Furnace Creek is the lowest-elevation golf course in the world, at 214 feet below sea level.  It was a fun course to play while looking at the gorgeous Death Valley scenery.  We pretty much had the course to ourselves being we only saw 2 other golfers during our 18 hole round.

My goal today was to finish the game with a score that was even with the temperature.  I was 3 strokes under the 92 degree weather, and I even made a birdie.  We played our lowest round ever today, (maybe not in score but definitely in elevation !!)  Our scores were decent considering we haven't played golf in over 6 months.

We stopped by Pahrump Nugget Casino and played the senior slot tournament, then went to China Wok Buffet to eat a late lunch/early supper.  It was pretty tasty.

We spent the rest of the afternoon sitting around watching the doves perched on the camper across the road.  The doves spent their afternoon watching the humans and cat sitting outside their camper.  We have another full day here tomorrow before leaving on Tuesday.

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