Morongo Indian Casino, CA

We don’t know how this happened, but we ended up again at an Indian casino on a weekend. It seemed that every person within a hundred miles was at this casino. Every single slot machine was occupied. All the table games were filled up too. The poker room had a waiting list for the Texas Hold ‘em, and all this on a Sunday afternoon. It was late afternoon, and we decided to stay overnight in the parking lot, no hook-ups, but Lei could gamble a little and Howard could watch baseball in the snack bar. This overnight parking happens a lot at casinos. You may not have hookups, but the food is cheap and the casino wants you around to come in and gamble. Most casinos have huge parking lots, and besides the RVs, you’ll often see truckers staying over for the same reasons.
The casino had over five hundred slot machines, a bingo room and a poker room. There were some other card tables, but Lei could not find an open seat at the Pai Gow.
So we slept our rig, and were awakened by the big semi-trucks leaving, and construction noise from the new ten-story hotel and casino being built by the Morongo tribe. We had a big, inexpensive breakfast in the morning, and set out for Arizona.