Lute’s Casino – Yuma, Arizona

The other day five of us ventured into Yuma to look at more fifth-wheels, since Jim and I are looking to get a longer rig with a third slide.  No luck this time either, so we decided to go to lunch.

We remembered Nick Russell mentioning Lute’s Casino in his blog, so off we went to old downtown Yuma. After parking we walked across a stretch of green grass and Linda and Marty couldn’t resist – took off their shoes and wiggled their toes in the splendor of real grass.

Lute’s Casino use to have some gambling there back in the old days, but not now.  It’s a restaurant and if the “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” tv show ever came here, it would easily qualify as a DIVE.

Front entrance	The place is deceptively huge!
Live piano player playing the 40s	Stuff hanging from the ceiling
Tables with high stools	More stuff on the walls
Ate the “Especial” a hamburger and hot dog combo-all on the same bun. See the hot dog on the bottom and the hamburger on top?	Leaving the back door.  Why isn’t anyone smiling????

Remember, you are loved.

Life in the Desert

We have been blessed with wonderful weather here in Arizona this year.  Yes, we have had wind at times and a few cold spells from the weather coming over from California, but all in all it has been very pleasant. There has been a good amount of rain but usually confined to all day rains and not “a lot of days of rain” so the spring desert flowers should be really good this year.

We love boondocking or dry camping as it is also known.  It is camping without utilities or hook-ups.  You go somewhere and park, you have a tank full of fresh water…about 40 gallons for us…and empty holding tanks…70 gallon for “black water” for the sewer and two 25-35 gallon “gray water” tanks; one for the kitchen sink area and one for the shower/bathroom sink area.  We can go about 12-14 days without dumping…so that’s a fer piece of time.

It’s quiet out here in the desert, with the occasional train going by, which we rather enjoy.  You’ll see a coyote walking by in back of a rig, or in this case a tortoise ambling along across an open space.

People who boondock like their space so we usually park a bit apart. 

 

 

 

 

The scenery out here in Sidewinder road is pretty with a lot of different cacti around us and nice rock formations in the distance.

 

There is always time to take a nap in the afternoon.

 

 

 

 

  And we have happy hour usually every day at 4 pm and not always with booze.  We gather and share what we did that day and maybe plan what to do tomorrow.  Here are some of the snacks we served this week.  They are seafood poppers with the recipe coming from our Escapee Class of 2007, Jim and Nancy Tidball. So yummy with cream cheese, crab meat and shrimp!

 

We do some work on our rigs like Marty Cassidy here putting in a new window in his door that he bought in Algodones, Mexico.

We get WONDERFUL sunrises and sunsets here in Arizona.  Here is a sunrise and its reflection in the Mossman’s windows…striking!

The days are lazy with reading outside, tanning and dinners together, along with our normal household chores of dusting continuously, laundry, cooking and washing dishes.  It’s a wonderful lifestyle and we love it!

Remember, you are loved also!!!!