Day 26 Leeds UT to Las Vegas NV 137 Miles
We were advised that a little diner in the tiny town had a great breakfast so we went for our first breakfast out while on this trip.
We picked up I15 south toward Las Vegas. Not long after leaving St. George in the southwest corner of Utah, we began to descend through canyons and the Virgin River Gorge. I remembered it from an earlier trip, it's very impressive and a LOT easier going down than up with a large vehicle. Then, the canyons abruptly end and you emerge into a flat desert landscape...just like that!
The temperatures go up as you go down. We traveled through a small slice of Arizona , which surprised me for a minute and had me checking the map...I expected to see a 'Welcome to Nevada' sign not Arizona. The Nevada sign showed up less than a half hour later.
There is a massive highway project in progress coming in from the north on I15, it's nice to see a state that keeps up with population growth. South Carolina fails miserably in that respect. By the time our officials get around to improving a highway, it's already outdated.
We are at the Oasis RV Resort, just a few minutes from the airport end of 'The Strip', the Mandalay Bay end. The resort has a great pool, it was in the mid 90's so it was easy for me to get into the water. This girl has been 'southernized' and refuses to put more than a big toe into water less than 80 degrees.
Had a light dinner and headed down to the strip. We parked at the Palazzo, way below the Palazzo...level 3. The car thermometer was reading 96 in the garage. As usual the people watching was amazing. When did micro mini's come back? I've been living in Podunk too long....
Gambled a little, which for me, means slots. I won some, but Jim wanted me to keep playing so, of course, I gave it all back. He won, of course, (has a lucky horseshoe up his ass) and covered my loss and doubled what he had put in....which wasn't much anyway. When we walk through the lobbies and see what SOME people are betting...YIKES!
When we got into the car to return to the RV, and looked at the clock it seemed later than we thought. Darn, we didn't know what time it was again! We didn't know until we got back to the resort and asked the guard at the gate what time zone we were in. Pacific Time! When did that happen? We usually see a sign on the interstates telling us when the time zones change...missed that one!
Good thing we realize it now...my daughter is arriving at the Las
Vegas airport tomorrow at 3:00pm ! I'm thrilled.
