After 2 nights at the Island Resort we had a little money left for a second casino – North Star Mohican. This is a brand new facility and RV park grounds – opened January 2009. One advantage to the casino parking facilities is the possibility of buffet dining. Unfortunately, neither of these had that option.
Generally when we are headed towards a new location, we utilize Good Sam, Google, MapQuest, and our truck’s GPS maps to determine the best approach based on time, mileage, sights to seen between points, etc. Approaching this particular casino, we saw signs indicating that our main approach road was closed to through traffic. So, trying to figure out if that meant us, we called the casino reservation desk. We were told “no problem, go into town and turn left at the purple sign.”
Off we go, 45 feet overall length pulling our 5th wheel home behind us. We enter Grisham and see more indicators that this was probably not the best approach (or idea for that matter). We follow the casino and all maps directions and plow through roads under construction until it is clear this was a BIG mistake. Luckily, there was a road worker with a good sense of humor and directions. So, we circled the small town hoping to get back out of town without traversing the construction again. Well, that didn’t happen and we had to go the wrong way down the fresh dirt bumpy roadway to the outskirts of town.
We again put the casino address in our GPS and retract our steps. Eventually, we find our way to the RV park. On the way, we cross just beyond the construction we had intersected with back in Grisham. There is NO WAY we could have traversed those roads being worked on – clearly the casino clerk has never travel South of the casino.
