January 31, 2014 Laughlin, NV/Bullhead City AZ

We walked across the river, which is into the next state, Nevada. We walked on the River Walk north of Laughlin.

John at the north trailhead. The sun went behind a cloud. It even sort of rained, I could feel a couple drops coming down, but it did not look like it reached the ground. The view across the river, east into Arizona of the mountains east of Bullhead City.

Seagulls at Davis Camp in Arizona. You can see the river walk across the river in Nevada. Petroglyphs at Davis Camp.

Wild flowers are blooming. Brittle Bush, sand verbena, desert marigold, pink mallow, orange mallow, black eyed susans, rose mallow and a sunflower.

The basket looks better shellacked. Shiny and has better shape.

January 30, 2014 Davis Camp, Bullhead City, AZ

Nice relaxing day. In the 70’s, partly cloudy.  I worked trying to revive the basket. I may be able to straighten it up a bit when I shellac it.

But it still looks Charlie Brown Xmas tree like. My first attempt of a basket made with a gourd.

Sunset was lovely again tonight. It is wonderful being by the river, have missed water.

The bus in the sunset at Davis Camp, Bullhead City, AZ.

My wonderful loving husband cooking dinner. Steak, baked on the BBQ sweet potatoes and yummy whipped cauliflower.

January 28-29, 2014 Bullhead City, Arizona

Camped at Red Rocks, then on to Bullhead City. I didn’t realize we crossed the time zone, and it is an hour later here in Arizona. The afternoon has a extra hour of light.

Our camp spot at Red Rock Canyon just outside of Vegas for before and after the maintenance. And our view of Red Rocks from the campsite.

Driving down into Laughlin, NV. We camped at Davis Dam park, right on the Colorado River under palm trees. The bus is under the first ramada there. We camped here last spring and loved it.

Nice and warm, 75 degrees. Little bit of sun bathing. . . I took my boat out and paddled up river to the dam, and took a few more shots of the campground. The water is so clear you can see the bottom pretty far out.

The cormorants line up on the power line over the river for the night.  The bus at sunset.

Sunset over the river. As beautiful as this beach is, it is a dirty park. I picked up a grocery bag full of cigarette butts, bottle caps, rusty nails, broken glass, dog poop and miscellaneous camp garbage from our site and beach. Boo.

January 27, 2014 Las Vegas, Nevada

We loaded up the bus and went to Las Vegas. We are camped at Red Rock Canyon, just to the west of Las Vegas. In the AM we dropped the bus off at Cummins for oil and filter change.

To entertain ourselves we went to the Neon Boneyard. The sign is made of letters and parts from other famous signs. The N is from the Nugget, the E from Caesars Palace, the O from Binion’s Horseshoe and the little stars from the Stardust.  Our tour guide Paul is discussing neon in front of the Yucca Motel sign. Apparently neon is charged by the bend in the tubes. This one was expensive. He gave us some history of Las Vegas and some of the casinos and the mob during the tour.

A huge pool playing guy in front of the happy cleaners shirt, that waved it’s arms when turned on. Paul in front of the skull from Treasure Island, which is now only called TI and they have done away with the pirate show.

The magic lantern from Aladdin's, the Stardust sign.  I stayed in the Stardust- it doesn't seem like that long ago, but it is gone now.

The Horseshoe from Binion’s Horseshoe, and the Sahara sign. The duck was at a used car lot.

The Boneyard museum has restored and put some of the historic signs on the streets with the cooperation of the City of Las Vegas. The cowboy and cowgirl are across the street from each other on Fremont Street.  The cocktail glass and Vegas sign are also on Fremont Street.

The slipper from the Silver Slipper. Also on Fremont street is the Heart Attack Grill. We saw it on TV once. If you are over 350 lbs you eat free. You have to put on a hospital gown over your clothes when you go in. The waitress dress as nurses. The food is really rich and really bad for you.

A few of their menu items, the butterfat shake with pure cream, the flatliner fries fried in lard, single, double, triple and quadruple bypass burgers. John liked the Alcohol is good for you nurse. In the window there was the Bacon Bondage t-shirt.

Another restored sign, the old welcome to Las Vegas sign with the horse.

January 24-25, 2014 Gypsy Time Travelers

We have seen these guys around for years in Shoshone, they come through here in the winter. They travel around in Florence,their Recreational Castle and do shows on the road and at Renaissance fairs. Christy tells stories and Michael does blacksmith work in the behind her. We have never stayed for a show for one reason or another. Tonight we made it to one. They put on a great show. They are even free. John bought us raffle tickets, they draw for what ever Michael makes during the show. Judy won a leaf pendant made from a horse shoe nail, but she gave it to me.  She could tell I was coveting it.

This first photo is from their website. gypsytimemachine.com where you can see lots of cool photos of Florence . Much better light than we had tonight. Florence has two bedroom lofts upstairs that raise up when they are stopped and go back down to drive down the road.

The kitchen with a copper sink  and refrigerator that doubles as a  blacksmiths shop with a propane forge. The living room has a 380 lbs anvil, which has a table top that fits on top and a fireplace.

There are three drawbridge porches and 2 balconies to enjoy the views. The back. They even have a crane to lift their motorcycle onto the back here when they travel. And a mast and crows nest just for fun.

Even loved the brand name of the tires they have. Here is another photo from their website of what their rig looks like when they drive her.

My leaf pendant that Judy gave me. I took it back the next night to have Michael attach it to the zipper on my purse. I was afraid I would break it if I did. The clouds  in the morning over Shoshone were pretty over the bus and Judy’s house.

We went back the second night to see a different show. We ran into Hawk, Sam and Robin at the show. Here is Christy telling the story of the Devil and the Smith, while Michael works on miners candlesticks.

I won one of the candlesticks in the raffle. I gave it to Judy, since she gave me the pendant.  Christy and Michael with Florence. There were still cool clouds in the sky,

We also ran into Cynthia from Cynthia’s with the Teepees at China Ranch. We had desert and visited with her. The sunset was lovely over Tecopa.

The sunset over Florence. Amy and Wayno in front of the Bistro.

Twilight on Florence.