Breakfast Club
An Affiliate of
the
The Knife & Fork
Breakfast Club Visits Globe, Finds Gold
11 Dec 04
by Warren McIlvoy
In honor of the last
Breakfast Club event of the year, we were
greeted with outstanding flying weather for our event to Globe,
Our departure out of
Chatter on our air-to-air frequency was moderately heavy so the turn-out held
promise to be good. Approaching Globe from the northwest takes you over
the open pit copper mines that dominate the environs in this part of the state.
I could hear on the unicom frequency that the winds
were calm and I suggested to the group that we make a right down wind entry to
runway 27 as that would shorten the taxi to the ramp on the west end of the
airport. Speaking of the ramp, the new ramp was constructed right across the
highway from the Apache Gold Resort and Casino. This new location
shortened the hike to the casino by about 250 yards. By the time that I
taxied-in, the ramp was half full of Breakfast
Club aircraft.
The Apache Gold Resort and Casino is not overly large when compared to
those in Laughlin but it has it's share of the
familiar slot machines dominating the core area of the floor. On an elevated
(about 5') level of the main floor, is the balance of the casino with it's
variety of gambling opportunities to separate you from your cash. The
restaurant is located on the north side of this elevated area and is divided
into two choices, a buffet and a menu order section. But there have been some
changes since our last visit. The Wickiup Buffet
is open for breakfast only on Sunday mornings and evening meals. The Apache
Grille was available for ordering off the menu, I guess that we will opt
for the Apache Grill. We were seated in the series of tables and booths that
kept most of our group relatively in tact. We were promptly greeted by our
waitress and our food orders were delivered in a reasonably short period of
time considering the sudden arrival of 23 people. The portions were ample and
tasty and, best of all, casino priced.
With all the money that we had saved on the
morning's breakfast, it made good sense, for my wife anyway, to see if she
could double-up our savings. While my wife invested our savings, I wondered
around the casino floor area to take-in the show of watching folks invoke their
individual techniques of coercing the slot machines to give-up their treasures.
Needless to say, our savings on breakfast did not manifest itself into a
bonanza at the slots. I had to rescue my wife from the tentacles of
"promised riches" before it was to late or
at lest, with minimal damage to our IRA. You can visit the casino web
site at: http://www.apachegoldcasinoresort.com
After the mandatory "pit stop", we
exited the casino and started our shortened trek back to the airport. While
walking south along the Resort entryway and parking lot, I noticed a very
amusing sight, a speed limit sign in the parking lot displaying an 11 mile per
hour speed limit. I was pondering what the consequences might be if you drove
15 miles per hour. Was that limit imposed to accommodate stray livestock that
might have wondered out from the adjoining, new, rodeo and concert arena or
what? 11 miles per hour, you've got to be kidding me!
Our return trip was, more or less,
a retracing of the route that we took on the way into Globe. I was talking
to BC-51 about locations and scenery when we got a call from a guy
flying to some place in
The Apache Gold Crew
What's Next?
The Breakfast Club will "kick-off" our 12th year of
monthly fly-ins by making an encore visit to Parker and the Blue
Water Resort & Casino. We last did this trip in January of 04 and, for
some unknown reason; we had the largest attendance of any Breakfast Club fly-in's. The Blue Water Resort
has a very unique indoor swimming pool and water slide that is worth taking
a look at. The February event will see the returning to Kingman and the airport
café. That's all for now but remember, fly safe.