Saturday AM

We are waking this morning to a forecast of 84 degrees and sunny.  Lela is progressing through another sinus infection taking her regular medication along with a Mexican antibiotic we procured while in Texas.  Sickness has not stopped her from having fun while visiting in Bullhead City.

Yesterday, Friday, Tracy and Tim took us to Oatman, AZ. 

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/az/oatman.html 

Go to that site and read about the history of the town, it is pretty interesting.  Hillard had made a notation in his old guide book mentioned in a previous post.

The gold safe

Lela and Tracy in the mine (barely visible)

Street musicians

The hotel where Gable and Lombard honeymooned

 

Hotel used in How The West Was Won

 

Street gunfighter

Oatman is an old gold mining town from the early 1900's.  It is nestled in the mountains along the Mother Road, US 66. 

What is really unique about the town is that the burros roam loose throughout the town. 

Tourists buy feed for them and they show up every morning from out in the mountains to be fed. 

The burros are descendants of the burros that were used during the mining days and turned loose when the mines failed.

G'pa

Tracy & Tim

The Lovely One

G'pa & Tim

Interesting sign

Another interesting sign (not politically correct)

 

We returned to go across the Colorado River into Laughlin, NV for dinner at the Pioneer Casino.

  The restaurant was called the Bumbleberry Flats Restaurant. 

Thursday we looked around town, made a Wal-Mart stop and a Sam's run.  We returned to the Silver Star, did a little maintenance and cleaning, and got some couch time.