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U.S 550 in New Mexico takes you through hundreds of miles of Indian reservations. For the uninitiated, Indian reservations are pretty bleak places. Indians are not wealthy people and the land we shoved them on is not terribly life sustaining. The economy is so bad that there are hardly any roadside stores at all on 550. I passed maybe one gas station in a 200-mile stretch. This is a problem when you wife has to pee and doesn't want to use nature's toilet. Or if you're running out of gas.

But while there are hardly any gas stations, there's plenty of something else --- the desert casino. We gave the Indian the right to soverienty on their land. So they make up their own laws. And they decided to legalize gambling a while ago.

We pulled over to use the restroom at this Apache casino. Since we were there, Karen decided to take a turn on a one dollar slot machine. She lost. But some Apache mother was probably able to put fry bread on the table that night because of our decision to waste a dollar.