We forgot to mention an incident in last week's blog. As we came to the lights in Parker on Wednesday, a 5th wheel was stopped in the left lane. It's gooseneck had come off the hitch, and crashed through the tailgate. The trailer was 'kneeling' on the raised jacks on the front edge. It looked like it must have happened recently, but would take a while to get it moved off the road. It would have been interesting to know whether hitch broke, or didn't get hooked up correctly. Seeing this makes us double check our hitch.
Thursday, we did the 2 mile each way riverwalk along the casinos. We got a couple of ideas of places to eat before we leave.
Friday we walked up to the top level of the RV park. On that level we saw a motorcoach which was totally burnt out. It was a good thing that it was on a double sized site.
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| burnt out motorcoach |
On our way back down, we had a discussion with a couple about the Alberta spring election. Since they won't be back until after the election, they had arranged to get a mail-in ballot. Our plan is to arrive back in Alberta the day before the election.
Saturday morning, we walked across the river, and were planning to walk along the Arizona side until we found that it looked like it was 'homeless' village, with a few tents and clothes around, so we gave it a pass. We came back to the Nevada side, and looked up a Bank of America ATM. It looked like it was in the Tropicana Casino Hotel, so we headed there. While we were discussing where it might be with a lady working at the BBQ place on the corner, we checked its location on the phone, and found it was a couple of blocks north. It turned out the address was the Laughlin Outlet Mall, so we checked out the directory which showed an ATM by the escalator. It turned out to be on the back wall of the escalator. There were a lot of closed stores in the mall, and many empty locations. While we were walking the few blocks back to the RV park, we could see smoke along the road ahead. When we got to the entrance to the park, we could tell that it was a vehicle burning. We had time to go into the park, and into the casino parkade on the corner to get to the 'plus 15' walkway across to the casino, where we could see it fully engulfed. A security officer told us she had called 911 to report the fire. A few minutes later the fire trucks arrived and put out the fire. Somebody was sure having a bad day.
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| pickup burning |
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| fire dept putting out the fire |
We asked the officer about the motorcoach in the RV park that was burnt. She said that happened at 3AM Monday morning. No one was injured, and since they were in the double sites at the top, there was only minor blistering of vinyl on the adjacent RVs.
Sunday, a fellow Titanium owner from Alberta came over to chat.
On Monday, we went into Bullhead City to pick up some groceries. Did laundry.
Tuesday we drove to Chloride, about 10 miles north of Kingman. It looks like artists and collectors have taken over this old mining town.
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| one artistic yard |
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We stopped at Visitor Info, which is in the general store. They recommended that we walk the 1.3 miles from the west edge of main (Tennessee) street to the Murals. There were signs indicating which direction to take where there was any doubt.
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| first direction sign to Murals |
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The murals are quite impressive.
They were painted adjacent to some faint petroglyphs.
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| petroglyphs | |
On the way back, we chatted with a couple from Alberta who had stopped their jeep at one of the junctions. They told us they were boondocking on a vacant lot in town. We expected a big motorhome, but when we got back to town, we noticed an old short schoolbus converted to a camper. After eating the lunch we brought with us, we picked up ice cream treats at the store. On the way back, we drove by the Mineral Park Mine, which has quite large tailings piles.
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| Mineral Park tailings |
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There were a lot of mines along the Cerbat range that runs northwest from Kingman.
Wednesday, we walked out along the walking paths towards the Davis Dam at the north end of town. We took the route to the Davis Dam lookout, a nice climb along the Horseshoe Loop to the top of a little hill along the river. From there we could also see back to the casinos in Laughlin.
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| Davis Dam |
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| Laughlin |
On the hitching rail at the lookout there was a sticker with the instagram #rnrseetheworld. This instagram account is associated with the Whitecourt (Alberta) Wolverines, and is related to the
deaths of the stepsons, Ryder and Radek, of the the team owner.
There were lots of a flower we haven't seen often.
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| Dune Evening Primroses (the white flowers) |
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Thursday, we took a different route toward the dam, up the Desert Trail. It climbs up on the south side of the highway that goes west from Laughlin, ducks under the highway through a concrete underpass, then downhill toward the dam, coming out close to the overlook yesterday, then returns back along the river, about 5 miles.
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