On to Laughlin

The next morning we left Panacea behind as we headed for Laughlin.   Highway 93 took us through wide open spaces and past the turning for the ET highway that runs alongside so called ‘Area 51’, aliens, space ships and all things weird, supposedly.

We’d thought of driving up to the Little Alien Café in a tiny town called Rachel, but didn’t get there, I forget why.   Looking at the map later, I realized that quite a few roads we’d driven this year had taken us around the edge of ‘Area 51’ and we never saw anything the slightest bit odd.   Although if we’d been out there on a dark and lonely night, who knows!

In Laughlin we stayed at the Golden Nugget, our room overlooked the Colorado River, which was rather nice.   After dropping our bags we got a Starbucks and headed for the gazebo overlooking the river.   Although the view, as always, was lovely we were inundated with flies, we’ve encountered flies by the river before, but nothing like that it really was dreadful, needless to say we didn’t stay long.   It was very strange because as soon as you moved away from the river the flies disappeared.

We had dinner overlooking the river in the Colorado Belle and while the view was lovely, the outside of the windows were covered in flies, our waitress told us it was the time of the year and they would be spraying the river soon.  

Have fun, we are!