A birthday to remember!
After 2 nights in Las Vegas it was time to go. Vegas loved us so much (sadly, unrequited love) that she tried to stop us by engineering some heavy traffic and some kind of ‘incident’. (We saw a helicopter on the ground as the traffic was diverted via the Bellagio car park. It didn’t look like a police or ambulance helicopter, so it wasn't a road accident: maybe it was someone with money who decided that it was the quickest way to get into town?). But we eventually got out and travelled down to California on Interstate 15.
It was my birthday and, proof that one never really outgrows their inner child, we celebrated it by visiting a ghost town and had a jolly good time.
Calico was founded in 1881 to mine silver (and later borax) and reached a population of 3,500 before dying out by the end of the century when silver lost its value.
It was then bought in the 1950s by Walter Knott, the founder of Knott’s Berry Farm who then restored the town and later donated it to the county.
We really enjoyed our visit there.
We had a great, tasty lunch - the meal was gigantic and we couldn’t finish it! And good job that we ordered from the plain and simple section of the menu!
After lunch, we enjoyed a ride on the narrow gauge Calico & Odessa Railroad, a remake of the original railroad used to carry the minerals. The ride is almost shorter than the name! LOL
But it was great fun (do you see how happy Adrian is? He loves trains, trams and boats!)
From Calico we drove to Palm Springs
and arrived at the La Dolce Vita resort (where we stayed for 4 nights) just in time for cocktail hour.
Adrian relaxed over a couple of G&T and made a couple of guys from Minnesota laugh out loud with his description of the people in Las Vegas: “never seen so much man-made fibre in one place!”
I don’t know whether that was before or after he told people that it was my birthday and they all sang Happy Birthday to me. So embarrassing! I am told that I went bright red!
My birthday dinner consisted of a microwaveable burrito bought at a liquor store round the corner for the resort…
It was a birthday to remember!
It was my birthday and, proof that one never really outgrows their inner child, we celebrated it by visiting a ghost town and had a jolly good time.
Calico was founded in 1881 to mine silver (and later borax) and reached a population of 3,500 before dying out by the end of the century when silver lost its value.
It was then bought in the 1950s by Walter Knott, the founder of Knott’s Berry Farm who then restored the town and later donated it to the county.
We really enjoyed our visit there.
We had a great, tasty lunch - the meal was gigantic and we couldn’t finish it! And good job that we ordered from the plain and simple section of the menu!
After lunch, we enjoyed a ride on the narrow gauge Calico & Odessa Railroad, a remake of the original railroad used to carry the minerals. The ride is almost shorter than the name! LOL
But it was great fun (do you see how happy Adrian is? He loves trains, trams and boats!)
From Calico we drove to Palm Springs
and arrived at the La Dolce Vita resort (where we stayed for 4 nights) just in time for cocktail hour.
Adrian relaxed over a couple of G&T and made a couple of guys from Minnesota laugh out loud with his description of the people in Las Vegas: “never seen so much man-made fibre in one place!”
I don’t know whether that was before or after he told people that it was my birthday and they all sang Happy Birthday to me. So embarrassing! I am told that I went bright red!
My birthday dinner consisted of a microwaveable burrito bought at a liquor store round the corner for the resort…
It was a birthday to remember!