Not too much to report since we left Salem. We left the Monaco rally and went down to Canyonville, OR and the Seven Feathers Casino. We had won a night in the hotel there at a charity event back in May at the Grants Pass Elks Lodge. The local firefighters had a casino night. Roy managed to parley the initial $100 in play money into about $45,000 by the end of the night and was the biggest winner. Played wild and crazy on the craps table! Anyway, the prize was a night at the Seven Feathers along with dinner in their gourmet room. So that's where we spent last Friday night. Hotel and casino were nice (but no winning here!) and the dinner was excellent.
We left there on Saturday and traveled down to Phoenix, Oregon, just south of Medford, about 25 miles north of the California border. We spent a couple nights there catching up on laundry, shopping, and other chores. Monday we headed into California, stopping at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge for a couple nights. We have stayed here several times in the past. The Lodge is nice, although the freeway noise can get kind of loud at night.
On Wednesday we headed down to the Carmichael Elks Lodge, near Sacramento. Jackie has a girlfriend (Kathy) who lives here and she wanted to visit for a few days. We had dinner with Kathy and her husband Bill on Thursday night at the Lodge. On Friday night we met up again with Bob and Gloria, our friends from Indio with whom we had been on the cruise. They were down in Sacramento visiting their daughter. On Saturday we went to Kathy's house for a big cookout.
On Sunday we are leaving to head into Nevada. We will stay a couple nights near Reno, a night in Tonopah, and then down to Las Vegas for four days. After that we head for Pahrump where we will be for five weeks. More on that later. See Ya'll.
