Travels With Mabel

well I made it thru New Mexico, Arizona, and now in Nevada - Pahrump. Did not feel like stopping in Vegas, I actually hate Vegas. Too big and no place to stop and set up for a bit. Pahrump is kind of different, gonna use it for hitting up Death Valley and a couple of other places. Stopped in Laughlin for 5 days, Quartzsite for 5 days, Casa Grande for 2 weeks and Bowie for 5 days.

Stopped at Don Laughlin's Riverside Casino for a few hours of spend my money wastefully - what happened to buckets of quarters and pulling on the one-armed bandit? Everything is fancy as shit electronics with flash, bang, boom - so much shit going on you can't concentrate on how much the game costs or how do you win on the machine. After 3 hours MrsIamNotinLebam and I are down about $400 and I sit down with her and she is playing this machine and tells me to play the machine next to her.
Mumbling I do - this machine I have no clue about it I win some fancy deal where I get 12 free spins. after about 4 free ones, I win another 8 free spins. The machine is running by itself, I do nothing. Lady on the other side is excited as shit - she says I just hit A few $100 wins and it is still going. I ended up winning $795 by not touching the machine. Took the smile off the machine and cashed out. Lost another $200 before leaving so broke even for 4 hours of gambling.

I do not move very fast - heading to the shambles that is Warshington eventually. Go slow so spring might arrive before I do

Here are some pics of desert and more desert and I am still in the desert just at higher elevation*
Sunrise
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Pahrump camp site
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Colorado River made into a lake from Casino
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Sunset somewhere
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More desert
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Edit: *could be altitude but would have to consult with long gone Damone

Pahrump used to have legal prostitution.

You had a cousin who met one once

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The actual reason I know this is that the National Training Center or NTC at Fort Irwin is about 3 hours from Vegas.

NTC training scenarios imagined a made up Soviet type country invading a neighboring made up country. The Soviet country was called Pahrumpistan or something and I remember my boss telling me about the origin of the name. I was highly disappointed when I found out we wouldn’t be visiting Pahrump.

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Was talking to the mrs yesterday and about all the places we have stayed - so this is just since August 22 of last year

Left Chehalis to NC -
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Edit: Updated the above map - missed a stop in SC
Then from NC to Texas
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and in progress back to the NW - right now at stop H
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Drive for 2-4 hours and rest for 4 days to 2 weeks. God I need a life
 
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We be in Mina, NV which I thought was the middle of nowhere. Today we went to Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Which is closer to the middle of nowhere so Mina is on the edge of nowhere. Berlin is a ghost town that is now populated with park staff although in slightly nicer buildings.
The Ichthyosaur is about a 40 foot sea monster from some era long ago. I could look it up bibtl. Got to the park 15 minutes late so missed the 10 am tour of the building that beast is protect by. So I also missed all the important data on the fossil. It still remains in the rock as they found it. Supposedly the largest intact Ichtyosaur in the world. But I missed all that talk.
The next tour was at 2 pm (only two a day) and me and the mrs did our own tour of the outside of the building the monster lives in and hiked around taking pictures of Berlin. Here they are some for your viewing pleasure.

looking out over the desert valley and mountains we crossed to get to Berlin
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I guess this is about life size of the intact sea monster that is in the building I was standing next to for this one
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Some guy moved his family to this place in 1865 or so - it said his kids were adults. Incest I call it
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Inside the old factory that processed all the gold and silver - used mercury to capture the gold and silver. They all lived long lives
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More in another post later

 
Now located in Likely, Ca at a place called Likely Place Golf and RV club, Place is packed with Californicators that are up golfing for the weekend. This place is a beauty though - the pictures prove it. Gonna stay here 5 days - it is easier on the pets if we rest often, also on me as I am an old fart.

this is the view from my rocking chair - told you I be old.

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Now located in Likely, Ca at a place called Likely Place Golf and RV club, Place is packed with Californicators that are up golfing for the weekend. This place is a beauty though - the pictures prove it. Gonna stay here 5 days - it is easier on the pets if we rest often, also on me as I am an old fart.

this is the view from my rocking chair - told you I be old.

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That’s about as BFE California as it gets.

The Ducktards in Klamath Falls are at the ready to pump your gas.
 
My Toyota Canyonero has the same Michelins as your dually. Just the P version

what does the P indicate? I could look it up but this will give you a chance to lord your wisdom of tires over me.
 
My Toyota Canyonero has the same Michelins as your dually. Just the P version

what does the P indicate? I could look it up but this will give you a chance to lord your wisdom of tires over me.

P275/65R18

P stands for passenger vehicle tire. P-class tires include cars, SUVs, crossovers, minivans and smaller pickup trucks.

LT means light truck tire, designed for vehicles that are capable of carrying heavy loads, towing trailers, or for those looking for an extra heavy duty option. These are often equipped on three-quarter or 1 ton trucks and SUVs.

So our Sequoia would be the equivalent of a half ton pickup. Lt rating is for 3/4 ton and up.
 
As the official White Wakanda Ambassador of Hardcore Husky, I decided to go visit LeBamDoog at the local trailer trash encampment.

Traded my faggy @haie style IPAs ( Boneyard RPM IPA ) for some of Lebam's Swisher Sweets. Lebam - just like the Roger Miller song - smoked the old half done Swishers he found sitting on the steps of 5th Wheel. A true King of the Road...

Sometimes, people forget that @RaceBannon is not actually our oldest, get of my lawn poster. If Race is Moses, then Lebam is Abraham.

Sorry @PurpleThrobber no pics were taken of Mabel.
 
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