Sunday, January 13, 2008

Camp Davis State Park, Arizona (Laughlin, Nv)

View Of Laughlin At Night From Camp Davis.JPG
Sunday: Breakfast at WWW. Ernie treated us to breakfast at the Wild Wild West Café. We had our usual, the Gamblers Special. Three eggs, three strips of bacon, hash browns and toast for $2.99. Very good and you can’t beat the price. Since this is Ernie’s home, he has 2 for 1 coupons so it was even less. Dawn had a nice personal pizza. The food here at the WWW is very good but don’t come to it for the atmosphere. We did enjoy long showers in Ernie’s room. The rooms here at the WWW are recently remodeled and as good as our room at the Silver Legacy in Reno a couple of months ago. I don’t think you could find a better place to stay, so close to the lower Strip for the price, less that $30 during the week. Of course, it is a truck stop, but a very nice one.

On the road to Laughlin. Found things worse, again, at Laughlin as far as dry camping at the casinos. You can dry camp now, BUT, you must register. And to do that, you must be a member of the casino’s reward program and produce vehicle registration, proof of insurance, and your drivers license. With the reward registration they are also getting your Social Security number. We don’t join reward programs so couldn’t stay. We didn’t feel like paying the fee at the Riverside RV Park, so we went across the river to the Camp Davis County Park. No stupid, unnecessary rules here. Just pay you $12. As is usually the case, it’s much nicer here anyway. Great views of the river and Laughlin from our beach side campsite. We noticed that at sunset, hundreds of ducks parade single file downriver in front of our campsite. Do they all head to the casinos each evening?

Lou fixed a nice chicken and vegetable casserole for dinner. After relaxing at the RV most of the evening, we drove over to the Riverside for a walk down the promenade along the casinos by the river. When we returned, the wind started gusting very strong buffeting the RV all evening. Felt like 60 mph winds. We’ll be here until they go away.

Our Site Camp Davis.JPG
Monday: We arose late again. The wind had been very strong last night and was still heavy this morning. The rocking of the RV must have worked, we slept very late. After breakfast, we broke camp and moved over to Laughlin to the Outlet Mall. After careful examination by Lou and a cursory examination by me, we were ready to go. I found a shop with my Gatsby hats for $3 each so I got a few. Lou found some tops at her favorite shop.

Even though the wind was gusty we headed on toward Quartzsite. We arrived in Lake Havasu and found a nice Laundromat. It was dark by the time we finished the laundry a little before 8 pm. We went over to the Golden Corral for dinner. They are the best buffet restaurant to be found. We had eaten at other locations when we were in the Southwest roaming around before. Brother Ernie was nice enough to give us a gift card for the place but there aren't many locations in California and noon lose by so we just haven't used then in q year or so. This was a good opportunity to use it. We did some more grocery shopping at Safeway

GPS = 34.2261, -114.191

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