The Road to Sin City...

"Where's everyone in Las Vegas?

Having some fun in Las Vegas.

Everything's bright.

Stay out all night.

You'll feel right in Las Vegas!" 

-- Tony Hatch/Petula Clark/Pierre Delanoie/Majenta

   We broke camp at North Ranch and set out around 11 this morning from Congress up Highway 93 towards our destination, Oasis Las Vegas RV Resort, approximately 225 miles.  The weather was moderate and the road was more mountainous than expected.  The scenery was nice, especially since this was an unfamiliar drive for us.





   We were amused to learn that the road is known as Joshua Tree Parkway of Arizona.  The only town we passed through en route to I-40 was a very small town called Wikieup, Arizona, which we easily would have missed had we blinked our eyes on the way through it.  We laughed when we saw a sign in the desert that read "Mowers Ahead," but the last laugh was on us, as they actually were out mowing the brush alongside the road. We stopped for lunch at a Subway inside a Love's Travel Center in Kingman, Arizona to stretch our legs and give the dogs a break.





   Highway 93 turned north again off of I-40 through Lake Mead National Recreation Center and Boulder City.  We had waited to fuel up as it appeared on our Gas Buddy Application that we would save approximately 20 cents per gallon by fueling in Nevada.  Because we were tired and didn't see any good prices along the way we drove straight through to the campground.





   The website of the RV resort advised that GPS navigation is flawed so we followed their directions and drove right to it.  We spent some time setting up since we plan to stay for a couple of weeks here, followed by a grocery run first to Sam's Club and then to Walmart Supercenter.  We picked up the movie Last Vegas from the Red Box rental kiosk, which we've heard is extremely funny.  Groceries are put away and the dogs are taken care of, and we're looking forward to lots of fun in the town that never sleeps.





   It's going to be interesting, we discovered, since Valerie's iPhone failed to change to Pacific Time and George's did, although they are both using Verizon's towers.  It's been a long day though, and the sleeping should be good, to whichever time zone we choose to abide.

   Which brings us to a second quote for today's blog...
"Does anybody really know what time it is?  Does anybody really care -- about time?" -- Robert Lamm