Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Yuma, Arizona - The Cocopah Casino & Mexico

Made it to the Cocopah Casino last evening. Peg is not feeling well and we fear she has what everyone else was getting in Casa Grande. I am feeling a bit bad myself, so I think we are in for a nasty time!

To sum up our week here, we spent seven days at the casino and we left the motorhome three times in that week. We were both really sick! We did get to the casino for a morning of "gambling". We actually came out $5.00 ahead. That coupled with free dry camping in the casino parking lot with several other RVers and we spent very little money on our stay there.


We also decided to go over the border into Mexico at Algodones. We were looking for DRUGS! I mean drugs for our colds, of course. We ended up looking around in the town after we got some amoxicillin. There were some pretty neat things to see, including some of the guys that will paint anything you give them with any scene you want. I saw them spray painting small satellite dishes, lanterns, glassware and various other items. They would take plastic bags and wipe the paint before it dried and create mountain scapes, desert scapes and wonderful scenery. Very impressive!

We crossed the border into Mexico at about 9am and left around 10:30am
since we heard the lines going back into the US tend to get rather long (over a mile long) as noon approaches. We ended up waiting about 20 minutes to cross. One regret we had is we could not get some cheap booze. The stores were not allowed to sell alcohol until after 11:00am....Oh well!! The drugs were inexpensive anyway...

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