Bookkasimne vuokra-auton Hotwire-palvelun kautta pariksi vuorokaudeksi ja onneksemme saimme kyydin majoittajaltamme paikkaan josta noudimme auton. Yksi ärsyttävä ilmiö, johon olemme törmänneet autoa vuokratessamme USA:ssa on, että kaiken näköisiä lisämaksuja tulee auton vuokrahinnan päälle ja meille on yritetty syyllistäen tuputtaa kaikkia mahdollisia vahinkovakuutuksia, vaikka ihan perusvakuutuksellakin pärjäisi mainiosti.
Saimme allemme todella vähän ajetun Nissan Sentran ja näppäilimme gps:ään Grand Canyonin South Entrancen osoitteen ja lähdimme nilkka suorana kohti Arizonaa.
Renting a car. Las Vegas, NV.
This is our ride. Las Vegas, NV
Aikaisin tullut pimeys yllätti meidät eikä meille olisi juuri jäänyt aikaa ihailla maisemia Grand Canyonilla, joten päätimme siirtää retkeämme päivällä eteenpäin ja mennä illaksi pelaamaan pokeria arizonalaiselle casinolle pienen mutkan kautta tosin, koska gps neuvoi meidät ensin lehmäfarmille.
Never seen a sunset like this before. Williams, AZ.
Rainbow on our way. Williams, AZ.
It's getting dark. Williams, AZ.
Vihdoista viimein yhteensä 6h ajettuamne löysimme casinon, joka oli elänyt kultavuosiaan joskus 1970-luvulla ja muistutti enemmänkin nuhjuisesti sisustettua bingohallia kuin casinoa.
Paikan päälle meille myös selvisi että Arizonan osavaltio kieltää no limit - pelit ja tarjolla oli vain $1/$2 limit Holdemia $8 panostuskatolla.
Kaiken kukkuraksi koko casinolla ei ollut edes WiFi:ä, joka on meidän matkan suunnittelun ja bloggaamisen kannalta tärkeää, joten suunnistimme Prescottiin, joka sijaitsi 50 mailin päässä tästä nukkavierucasinosta. Jo kyseisen casinon ulkoasusta olisi voitu päätellä, että paikka on suunnattu enemmänkin peliautomaatteja paukuttaville mummoille ja mammoille, sillä paikan kokolattiamatto oli hyvinkin suurella todennäköisyydellä alkuperäinen, yksikään casinon mainoskylteistä ei toiminut vaan osa kirjaimista oli pimeinä ja muutenkin yleinen vaikutelma vastasi enemmän vanhojen yksikätisten peliautomaattien tyyssijaa kuin etsimäämme pokerihuonetta.
Lopulta päädyimme Bucky's - nimiselle casinolle, jossa oli tarjolla $1/$2 Limit Holdemia $100 panostuskatolla, joka vastaa enemmän No Limit Holdemia panostuskaton suuruuden vuoksi.
Going to cash these out and sleep in the car. Prescott, AZ.
Emme olleet buukanneet yöpaikkaa tuoksi yöksi, sillä ei ollut alunperin minkäänlaista suunnitelmaa yöpymispaikkakunnan suhteen. Pelimme venyivät sen verran pitkään, että ei olisi ollut mitään järkeä ottaa enää huonetta, joka pitäisi luovuttaa ennen 12 päivällä, joten puimme muutaman vaatekerran päällemme ja nukuimme vuokra-autossa. Lisäksi mainittakoon, että lähialueen kaikki majoitukset olivat törkeän hintaisia tuohon aikaan, joten säästimme rahaa ja kasvatimme reissuluonnetta.
Seuraavassa blogissa on kuvia ja juttua Grand Canyonilta.
See you on the next blog.
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In this post we tell about our road trip to beautiful Arizona.
We booked a rental car from Hotwire for two days and luckily our Airbnb host gave us a ride to the rental place. There is one annoying thing when renting a car in the US: there's always all kinds of added fees on top of the rental price and they always try to sell every possible kind of insurance even though the basic insurance is good enough. We got a quite new Nissan Sentra and dialed Grand Canyon South Entrance in our gps and took off to Arizona.
It got dark really early and we wouldn't have had any time to explore the breathtaking view in Grand Canyon so we decided to go there on the next day and go play poker for the night in Arizona with a little detour because the gps sent us to a cow farm first.
Finally after 6 hours of driving we found a casino which have had its golden years in somewhere in the 70's. The casino seemed to be more of a shaggy bingo hall than a casino. We found out that state of Arizona prohibits no limit games so only thing they had to offer was $1/$2 limit holdem with $8 betcap.
On top of that the casino didn't even have WiFi which is crucial for planning our trip and blogging so we headed to Prescott, which located 50 miles from this shaggy casino. We should have figured out from the looks of the casino that it is more of a place for old people. Casino's wall-to-wall probably original from the 70's, none of the neon signs worked properly because some of the letters had blacked out and the overall atmosphere more of a gaming hall than a poker room that we looked for.
Eventually we ended up to Bucky's casino which had $1/$2 Limit holdem with a $100 betcap so it was little bit like no limit holdem because the bet cap was quite big.
We hadn't booked an accommodation for the night because we didn't have any specific plan so we decided to sleep in our rental car because our poker session lasted late. There wouldn't have been any sense to book a room for a night at 3am because the check out would have been in the noon and we had to head to Grand Canyon early in the morning.
In the next blog we tell more about our trip to Grand Canyon.
Thanks for reading
In this post we tell about our road trip to beautiful Arizona.
We booked a rental car from Hotwire for two days and luckily our Airbnb host gave us a ride to the rental place. There is one annoying thing when renting a car in the US: there's always all kinds of added fees on top of the rental price and they always try to sell every possible kind of insurance even though the basic insurance is good enough. We got a quite new Nissan Sentra and dialed Grand Canyon South Entrance in our gps and took off to Arizona.
It got dark really early and we wouldn't have had any time to explore the breathtaking view in Grand Canyon so we decided to go there on the next day and go play poker for the night in Arizona with a little detour because the gps sent us to a cow farm first.
Finally after 6 hours of driving we found a casino which have had its golden years in somewhere in the 70's. The casino seemed to be more of a shaggy bingo hall than a casino. We found out that state of Arizona prohibits no limit games so only thing they had to offer was $1/$2 limit holdem with $8 betcap.
On top of that the casino didn't even have WiFi which is crucial for planning our trip and blogging so we headed to Prescott, which located 50 miles from this shaggy casino. We should have figured out from the looks of the casino that it is more of a place for old people. Casino's wall-to-wall probably original from the 70's, none of the neon signs worked properly because some of the letters had blacked out and the overall atmosphere more of a gaming hall than a poker room that we looked for.
Eventually we ended up to Bucky's casino which had $1/$2 Limit holdem with a $100 betcap so it was little bit like no limit holdem because the bet cap was quite big.
We hadn't booked an accommodation for the night because we didn't have any specific plan so we decided to sleep in our rental car because our poker session lasted late. There wouldn't have been any sense to book a room for a night at 3am because the check out would have been in the noon and we had to head to Grand Canyon early in the morning.
In the next blog we tell more about our trip to Grand Canyon.
Thanks for reading
Memi & Henkka
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