Highways are excellent. We enjoyed going through Searchlight. Off the beaten path is an old gold mine with a road that will take you close enough to get photos. It's all boarded up, but still an active claim. Just ask at the convenience store.
At one time, there were more residents in Searchlight than living in Las Vegas, and Searchlight boasted of having the most houses of ill repute in the state.
The Searchlight Nugget,has two chips, $5 and $25. However, if you go there when they are not using chips like during the day, you have to ask "grandma" if you can purchase them. Well, being from Texas, I thought I would ask after a round of unsuccessfully negotiating with the cage,. It was grandma's niece who said reluctantly, "Only "grandma" can approve it.
I asked, "Let me speak to grandma." and grandma issued the order to "givee the "fella some of those new, shiny ones."
I was playing hold'em two nights later at the Riverside, and was telling the story about my experience with "grandma," at which time, another player at the table said Searchlight grandma was his real "grandma," and he had heard the story from casino regulars how a "Texas whiner" was begging for a few chips.
Well, I guess Searchlight is unlike Las Vegas in that, "what happens there, stays there." In Searchlight, the motto is, "What happens in Searchlight, everybody knows about it the next day." Yes, that was me whining, but I did get to meet grandma. Does anyone know grandma's name?

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