Oatman, Arizona

Happy Easter to all of my Readers :-)
What a day. Started with a helicopter ride over, and along, the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. It's all very well seeing it on TV but you just cannot imagine the enormity of it. We had a lovely, and incredibly good, pilot by the name of Yani. I only know one other Yani and she happens to be our niece.
After the Grand Canyon we jumped on the bikes and set off for Williams, a very important link to R66. It was the last place to have an interstate bypassing the town. I hope it doesn't kill the town as it has other places, I don't think it will considering the number of visitors there today.
On to Hackberry, made famous by Bob Waldmire, look him up, he's quite a character.
Cool Springs was next on the route, it's a store, gift shop etc. If you do this route make sure you visit bathrooms prior to Cool Springs, enough said!
Then came the hair raising ride to Oatman. 91 bends and 2 hairpin bends. It's not the bends themselves that are hair raising, it's the sheer drops on the right hand side of the unprotected edge that scared me. I can't even do those glass lifts that overlook the atrium in some hotels.
Anyway, I made it to Oatman alive, if a little greyer hahahahaha.
One thing that makes Oatman famous is it's wild donkeys, or Burros as the locals call them. I have always loved donkeys and these are no exception. They are such gentle creatures and quite intelligent.
This mother and daughter were wandering around, with half a dozen others, but it was the "Please don't feed me" notice on the forehead that initially caught my eye.
They also stage a robbery and shootout twice a day but we were too late to catch that.
Next stop was Laughlin, Nevada. So yet another State to add to the list. I was quite surprised at how prolific the huge hotel/casinos were. But I shouldn't have been, I suppose, considering it's not that far from Las Vegas, about 150 miles, and how lax the gambling laws are. I didn't get a picture of it but one of the casino's was a large paddle steamer, as in 'The Ozarks' series.
Tomorrow we go on to Las Vegas itself.
Plus - the wind has dropped and it is much warmer.
Oatman Highway Video
https://youtu.be/IqdjtR0lOfE