Breakfast was at Mimi's like always the food was good and the blueberry muffin was excellent. On the way back to the freeway was the Sunset Station Casino and Hotel. Since it was the last chance before leaving Nevada we stopped. Barb promptly lost $2 and said that was enough for her. I on the other hand doubled my money. Unfortunately I started with only $20, but leaving with $40, and leave we did, was a good start to the day's drive.
At the Hoover Dam we crossed the Colorado River into Arizona and entered "The Land With No Trees". Seriously, no trees. Scrub brush and that's it. We stopped at one Colorado River overlook, which consisted mostly of indians selling pottery and jewelry under the "No Selling" sign.
It is also the land of single wides. I have no idea what people do out there in the middle of nowhere. The drive into Kingman would have been really boring except for the excitement of watching cars zip by me while I'm doing 5 MPH over the limit. The best thing I can say about Kingman is it's where you get on Interstate 40 and the legal limit gets up to 75 MPH.
A few miles later we head south on US 93 to Wickenburg passing through the town of Nothing, which is in fact nothing. We stopped to again visit Wickenburg Ranch, which has the perfect home in an imperfect location (at least for us). The rest of the drive into Sun City West was uneventful.
After unpacking we stopped at Fry's (a sibling of Fred Meyer) for a bottle of wine and headed to a friends house for dinner. And it was a great dinner and they are great friends.
292 miles today.
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