Jail House Dinner
BERT GILDART: Yesterday , I told Janie that before the day was over, she’d be in jail. “And why might that be?” she inquired as we drove along Highwy 93 north to Ely, Nevada, enjoying the beautiful stands of Joshua Trees now starting to flower and the endless baths of cactus.
Despite the Jail House atmosphere, the dinner was absolutely excellent.
“Well you missed one of our turns,” I said, and was immediately countered that I’d turned off to see what Janie was calling “an Alien Landing Site.” It sure looked like one and we stopped to take pictures. As well we got off from our route stopping to photograph the immense stand of Joshua trees, now starting to bloom.
Travels yesterday took us to Ely, Nevada whee we dinned in the cell of
an old Jail House. The bottle of Jack Daniels dangles from ceiling and is was tantalizing to us prisonsers
Nevertheless, I was right about one thing: we did wind up in a prison cell in an Ely Super Club which had partitioned a section of the cavernous room into 15 different dinning “cells”. The section is used to add ambiance to a person’s dinner experience – and the metal bared doors even close. A bottle of whiskey tangled just above the center of the table and the surrounding walls were lined with black and white image of some of the area’s historic figures. With their dapper mustaches all look a little like Doc Holiday.
Janie and I both thought this was a landing site in Nevada for space aliens.
Other, however, say the immensity of blinding lights derives from a vast outlay of solar lights
Janie and I both believe that immensity is intended to serve as a alien landing station.
Janie splurged and had a T-bone stake while I stuck with fillet of salmon. Both of us followed the servers recommendation and supper on their “stuffed potato.” I topped off the meal with a huge slice of carrot cake and a scope of ice cream. We conclude that jail food was really good.
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THIS TIME THREE YEARS AGO: (Twenty Hours of Photo Ecstasy)
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