We had a fretful night as the winds howled about 40MPH keeping us awake; the power went out in Laughlin and our trailer. But since it was already 1 am we were all hunkered in bed and didn’t get a chance to practice with our “pumpkin stealing lights”.
But when it was all said and done we woke up to a beautiful sky over the casinos.
Now today has significance for two reasons. The first we are leaving the gracious towns of Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona and heading north toward our final destination before we head down into Death Valley.
We head north this time but as you can see the view never changes. Straight as straight can be. But just look at the sky, BIG X’s in the sky means tomorrow is going to be a beautiful day. When I made this profound statement to my brother the tour guide/former weatherman he just chuckled like I was making it all up. Wait until tomorrow and the weather is perfectly gorgeous and I will remind him of my BIG X fact.
We climbed and climbed mountain after mountain but only one warranted a picture.
It looks like a drawing.
After a couple hours driving we had Las Vegas in our sites.
Now for the second reason today has significance. Today is Oct 27th. For any of you remembering my very first blogs.. Today is the day that I………………….
Fly into Las Vegas. And yes I was going to fly in on Southwest at approximately this time.
Imagine that… I have been here for 30 days already having the time and adventure of my life and today is the day it was all supposed to begin.
I cannot thank my brother Mike and his wonderful wife Shirley for giving me this experience.
Thank you for Dodge City, Kansas, Amarillo, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Route 66, the Grand Canyon, Williams, Seligman, Laughlin and now Pahrump. Thank you for everything before and everything in between every one of these wonderful places.
I would have missed all of this and started my journey here today in Pahrump Nevada. Never realizing what I would have missed. Now I do and am so glad I didn’t miss any of it.
As we left Las Vegas having seen just what you saw in my pictures… we headed up the mountains again.
The colors of the mountains are now tinged with red. They are very pretty.
But not long before the road becomes very long and very straight again.
About at the end of this road, we are nearing our destination.
We find out campsite at SaddlesWest, Rv park and Casino, ( remember we are in Nevada casinos are everywhere.) It is like a huge parking lot with the internet only in the laundry room. So here I sit typing this. But at least I can publish them for all you faithful readers. I really do worry about you forgetting me.
The only view here really is other RV’s parked all around us, with the exception of this snowcapped mountain, I think it is called Mount Charleston. The elevation of this mountain peak is 11,915 feet.
I will keep you updated with all my advents here in Pahrump and the when we take our trip into Death Valley I will be 2 weeks of no communication. I will try to publish a couple times during that stint.
Until then… time for my glass.
Hoot Toot and Whistle.
beautiful pics. I am so glad you were able to go with mike and shirley instead of flying :)
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