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Some occasionally ask about the Bluewater Hotel and the Desert Bar.
We put a few, simple, rough clips together of this past weekends trip so you can see kinda what it's like driving up to Kennies Desert Bar and what the indoor pool is like at the Bluewater casino.
Ya have to confess, it's one hell of a pool, and it's arguably one of the better casinos, yet on top of that, a very good casino/resort for an Indian Casino.
Time was the road to the Desert Bar (aka Kennies) was pretty rough, but you can see from our clips it's an easy run now.
You will encounter reckless idiots driving very fast & doing 4 wheel drifts on the road to/from the Desert Bar, so stay strictly to the right.
It's a County Road, not the Baja 1000.
Not unusual for the sheriffs to be waiting to hook them up back at the highway.
The neighbors do call on the crazy riders and drivers,, so drive R&P & have a DD if a drunk slams into you.
I tried to do the "pop up video" tricks. Made a hell of an effort at it. But, the Flip camera software and Apple software hate each other. Plus, Flip camera software just barely and very grudgingly works with Windows. It cut & deleted several clips we shot of the inside of the bar itself as well,, but I posted what it was willing to mix anyway.
Final Cut software shuts Flip out completely. Wife has told me to get a SONY HD video camera and quit bitching about the Flip and quit stinking up RDs site with my gripes.
So:
Note the Concrete walls and some paved road at Kennies Desert bar as we enter.
Either I missed those improvements last year(s), or Kennie put them in this past summer(s).
At the end of the video you can a catch a very rare glimpse of Kennie in the backround making burgers and Hot Dogs because his cook never showed up.
BTW,, sad to report that Kennies awesome cat Nell, is gone. It's a really sad subject with the girls that work there. We'll miss that cat too.
A real character. Nell dates back 12 years easily.
Click on the Video:
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We put a few, simple, rough clips together of this past weekends trip so you can see kinda what it's like driving up to Kennies Desert Bar and what the indoor pool is like at the Bluewater casino.
Ya have to confess, it's one hell of a pool, and it's arguably one of the better casinos, yet on top of that, a very good casino/resort for an Indian Casino.
Time was the road to the Desert Bar (aka Kennies) was pretty rough, but you can see from our clips it's an easy run now.
You will encounter reckless idiots driving very fast & doing 4 wheel drifts on the road to/from the Desert Bar, so stay strictly to the right.
It's a County Road, not the Baja 1000.
Not unusual for the sheriffs to be waiting to hook them up back at the highway.
The neighbors do call on the crazy riders and drivers,, so drive R&P & have a DD if a drunk slams into you.
I tried to do the "pop up video" tricks. Made a hell of an effort at it. But, the Flip camera software and Apple software hate each other. Plus, Flip camera software just barely and very grudgingly works with Windows. It cut & deleted several clips we shot of the inside of the bar itself as well,, but I posted what it was willing to mix anyway.
Final Cut software shuts Flip out completely. Wife has told me to get a SONY HD video camera and quit bitching about the Flip and quit stinking up RDs site with my gripes.
So:
Note the Concrete walls and some paved road at Kennies Desert bar as we enter.
Either I missed those improvements last year(s), or Kennie put them in this past summer(s).
At the end of the video you can a catch a very rare glimpse of Kennie in the backround making burgers and Hot Dogs because his cook never showed up.
BTW,, sad to report that Kennies awesome cat Nell, is gone. It's a really sad subject with the girls that work there. We'll miss that cat too.
A real character. Nell dates back 12 years easily.
Click on the Video:
Bluewater to Desert bar video by tpc123 - Photobucket@@AMEPARAM@@http://vid44.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid44.photobucket.com/albums/f18/tpc123/Hoteltodesertbar3.flv@@AMEPARAM@@vid44@@AMEPARAM@@44@@AMEPARAM@@f18/tpc123/Hoteltodesertbar3