Week ending Mar 22, 2018 Laughlin Nevada

Friday we went over to the visitor center to check on trails nearby.   Then we walked the trail from the visitor center across the highway to a parking area, and back.  After lunch, we went to the RV center next door to look at some toy hauler layouts.

Saturday was a lazy day. We did  walk around the RV park.  It is a large park, built up the side of the valley, with about 4 different levels.

Sunday was curling and Nascar.

Monday, we got half a dozen lemons from some neighbours who had brought them from their trees in California.  They can't take them back through agriculture. 

Then we drove a couple of miles north to park on Davis Dam Road, then walked about half a mile cross country over washes and around small hills to a road running along the edge of a roll of hills.

Across to the hills the mines are in

We carried up that road for a while until we got to the cut-off to Homestake Group Mine.  There wasn't a lot there, but two shafts had the best covers  that we had seen.  We wondered whether these were built because someone got hurt in one of the shafts.

 Shaft cover

  The shafts went straight down, and looked quite deep.  
 

Looking down into the shaft

  From there we found an old mine road that went at an angle back to the road, but further on.  It was a good shortcut to Wilie Inspiration Mine.  There was ruins of an old building that was about 9 yards by 15 yards. 

Wilie Inspiration Mine

The actual mine location was just a tailings pile with no shaft that we could find.  They must have filled that one in.   On the way back to the truck, we took a slightly different route cross-country since it was pretty steep where we had come to the road.  At one point, John went over to some boulders to lean on to shake some grit out of his boots.  It just happened that there were petroglyphs on two of the boulders.   There is a large petroglyph site about ten miles north of here that we had explored a few years ago, but we were not aware of these two rocks.

Tuesday, morning we drove out on Oatman highway to verify the location of a decent boon-docking spot we had seen in the fall.  We were surprised at how many RVs were boon-docking along this stretch.

Mid afternoon,we went over to the Riverside Casino, played the slots for about an hour, and netted about $25.  Then about 4:45 we took advantage of the two free buffet tickets that we got when we paid for our week in their RV park.  The food was decent.

Wednesday, we did some prep for some more boondocking.  We did a walk up the hill in the RV park.  We had a nice chat with a couple from Edmonton that are going home to put their house on the market to become full time RVers.   They have been spending a lot of their winters in Mexico.