Laughlin 2008

My wife and I left Thursday morning with two other friends and rode down to Laughlin, NV for the River Run Rally. Thursday we did over 400 miles and stayed in Boulder City. We took the cut off after mesquite and rode down by lake mead to avoid Las Vegas. I know there was some talk by some earlier about that road as a route from AZ to the Western Rally. There are pros and cons to taking that road. Parts of the road are very good and parts of the road are very bad (potholes that will jar your kidneys/don't plan on going faster than 35 mph through the bad sections) It is also out in the middle of nowhere and you might not encounter another human being. That may or may not be what you are after. If you are comming from Hoover Dam and plan on taking that road you need to fill up at the 2 pump Cheveron across the street from the Hacienda Hotel and Casino a couple of miles after the dam, because there is nowhere to get gas on that back road until you get to Overton/Logandale.

Day 2 we rode from Boulder City, over the dam and into laughlin through AZ. Laughlin was a mad house. There was at least 1000 bikes leaving Laughlin headed Toward Kingman as we were heading in Friday morning and we still had a difficult time finding a place to park! We hung out for a couple hours got some shirts and took off through Searchlight back to Boulder city. We rode over 200 miles Friday.

Saturday morning we decided just to ride through Vegas rather than take the back road by lake mead. It wasn't bad traffic at all we jumped on 515 and hooked onto I-15 in North LV and fought a nasty headwind all day. We hit 4 states in 3 days and covered nearly 1100 miles. In all it was a fun trip,

Here's some pics: http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x...008/?start=all