Oregon Coast summer trip - (Day 15) - Lucky7 Casino to Hopland

7/21/12  Saturday

I woke up and walked to the casino to get some coffee before I started cooking for breakfast.  While I was outside our trailer, I saw a Class A parked on the other side of the parking lot not too far from us.  The man name Ron from state Washington came over to talk to me.  He asked me does he need to register for the night?  I told him you don’t have to.  He added that he called before he came to this casino, the lady on the phone said “you are not staying more than two weeks right?” Ron told me he only wants to stay for three days here, he has a friend live in Bookings and invited him to see the kite Festival. Then he asked me, "isn't it you could park your trailer whereever you want?"  I told him you better park along the wooden post on the ground.  He thanked me and I started walking to the casino and got Tom and me some free coffee. 

 Mel continued our driving on 101 towards the South.

 
 We passed Crescent city without stopping instead we stopped to revisit the beach near Orick where we camped on the sand in 2003 for the trip to Redwood National Park.

   We supposed to get the gas at Eureka, because Tom forgot which side of the street the gas station was on. He didn't slow down enough and missed the gas station entrance.  So we filled up our gas in Fortuna 15 miles away for $3.97/gallon(same price).  We continued to Ukiah's Food Maxx to look for my lost brown hat which I left on the shopping cart 2 week ago.  I asked one of the lady workers inside the store, she looked at the lost and found box, but she couldn’t see my hat.  Next thing Tom drove to Quick Stop(same one we had 2 weeks ago) gas station to fill up his truck, the gas price was lower than Fortuna, it was only $3.59/gallon. After that we supposed to look for Sherwood Casino in the city of Willits, but we could not find it. (need to drive further into the dead end street). Our next casino would be Sho-Ka-Wah Casino in Hopland which is about 20 more miles away. 

After we reached the town, we had to drive 4 more miles branched from Highway 101.  On the way to the casino, you only saw few signs on the road to show you the way.  Some of the signs was hard to see, and we almost missed.  By the time we got there, we found out the parking lot was in bad condition. There were a lot of crack concrete surface on the lot. The parking lot had a lot of cars but we were the only RV on the lot. We went inside to talk to the security(he was at the door waiting for us). He had us filled and signed the Waive of Liberty paper and told us that the space we already parked on was okay. After I got my club card, the lady told me I could play the Wheel of Fortune to win some cash to put in my card.  I only got $5.  Then I looked for the free drink. I saw the drink station was inside the cafe.  I was not sure they are free or not, until I saw a man and a lady got their drink without paying for it.  Then I found out they are free.  

 I chose to start playing with $2 on Black Jack in the slot machine, I only lost 40 cent on that round of game. When we walked out of the casino we both were holding a drink and the security guy stopped us and told us we can’t bring our drink outside the casino.  So we put our drink into the trash can. After we went back to our trailer, Tom wanted more privacy and drove the trailer over the wooden bridge to the other side of the parking lot. 
  It was a big parking lot completely surrounded by chain link fence with no tree with a few security cameras on top of the lamp posts. We were the only trailer in this parking lot.  While we were having our dinner Tom searched for TV reception and there were none.  So I read a book before I went to bed.