Days 34 & 35 Laughlin, Nevada

I'll just combine 2 days, that will maybe take care of missing a day. We got into Laughlin, Nevada about 5 PM yesterday. Got tired of California and the coast and thought we would try to dry out a little in the desert. There is beautiful clear weather here and temperatures in low 80's. Laughlin, Nevada is a row of casinos along the Colorado river. Last night we went to the Joe Diffie show. It was very good. After that we hit the slot machines. Barb put 3 quarters in a machine and won 15 quarters. We quit while we were ahead and went back to the camper and bed. We are camped at the Riverside Casino RV park which is right across from the Riverside casino that started it all in Laughlin. This morning we ate breakfast at the Edgewater Casino. Had to wait in line 15 min, lots of people out here. Later today we hope to take the complete river walk which goes about a mile between the casinos and the river, and eat supper at one of the buffets. In the first picture is a large number of windmills. This is only a small section of a large wind mill farm. The second picture is where we are camped, and staying for a second night.

Day 33 Hearst Castle

Left the campsite this morning and first thing we saw was the Hawk on the sign. We went on to visit Hearst Castle. It was an amazing and fantastic tour. The tour lasted 1 hour and 15 min. Then there was a 30 min. movie. They have 4 different tours of the castle. They cost $20 each. We just took tour 1. Took about a 100 pictures, here is a small sample. We left the castle about 2 pm and headed east after having about enough of the coast. We are staying at a campground in Bakersfield, CA tonight.

D32 Big Sur area

I took a walk down the beach to look and take pictures of the old cement ship that was at the end of the pier. It was about a 100 ft. long. We left our beautiful beach front campsite and continued on down the coast on highway 1. From Monterey CA. to San Simeon the scenery is fantastic. We seen beautiful vistas around every bend in the road. We came to another area along the coast where there were hundreds of sea lions. and later we seen 9 California Condors at the same time. When we got to San Simeon there was hundreds of Elephant seals in the water and laying on the beach. We got a campsite at San Simeon State Park. This one did have pay showers, but no electric.


Elephant Seals





Sea Lions (Try to count them, don't count rocks)




Ocean vista



California Condors



Historic Bixby bridge (built 1932)