Apr
14th - 26th ...The
62 mile trip to Bullhead City, AZ was good. We fueled up at Sams
Club in Bullhead and killed sometime in the store as we could not
check into Ridgeview RV park until noon. We got a site facing north
so the sun wouldn't be as bad. The park is not very full as Rvers are
heading north. We decided to stay 9 nights instead of 14 due to the
hot weather coming. While there we went to a couple of Laughlin casino's to
listen to some live music...Tropicana on Monday evening, Riverside on
Wed. afternoon and the Avi on Sat. evening. We also went to the
outlet mall a couple of times. On Fri. the 19th
we drove 35 miles to Oatman where we met Dad and Elaine for lunch.
Oatman is an old mining town that is on old Route 66. Several Burros
roam the streets that house several gift shops. We watched the
'shoot out' at noon and then had a good lunch at the Oatman Hotel.
The restaurant/bar is wallpapered in dollar bills that customer have
been putting up for many, many years. The guy that was singing
during lunch also told the history of Oatman...very interesting! We
managed to leave without purchasing anything but a few 'rocks' for
Dixie's jewelry making. The weather while in Bullhead was pretty
windy and cooler for quite a bit of the time. The last few days were
HOT.
On
the 23rd
we drove 89 miles to Las Vegas...it was very, very windy most of the
way. We had to stop a couple of times to secure the awning as it
wanted to pull away from the motorhome. We had cross winds on 163
and then went into the wind on 95. We stopped at Camping World in
Henderson to buy some replacement step covers and while there we
asked it they re-strung window shades. They didn't but they gave us
a name of a local 'mom & pop' that did. We checked into Duck
Creek Rv Park (Passport) around 1130a. The sites at the park were
very short so we had to move a couple of times. We were given
different info by different staff – when it was all said and done
the gave us a card for a free night stay (it really wasn't that big
of a deal). We called the guy that fixed the window shades and since
he was able to do them we decided to stay 3 nights instead of 1 so we
could get them fixed. We had to take them down and take them to his
house (a bit of a job). It was a bit pricy ($130 for 2 shades) but
seems to be the going rate and not something we were willing to
tackle. We made a couple of trips to Trader Joes to stock up. On
Thursday we picked up the shades and then drove down 'The Strip' and
had lunch at the famous Peppermill Restaurant/Lounge. We also made a
stop to see the Hofbrauhaus. It is a replica of the original one in
Munich Germany that we went to in the early 90's with Roger &
Merlene (was it 93 Merlene?). Of course while we were there Mike had
an $8 beer – I don't recall the prices being that high in
Germany..haha! We went back home and got the window shades back
together and hung back up...that was a job! We will start our trek
home on Friday!
