Las Vegas is over 400 miles, so we made it as far as Tonopah. This place is on a high hill (6200 ft) with absolutely nothing for miles. We parked at Tonopah Station Casino/Ramada Inn. It’s a bona fide RV place, even though, it’s only a parking lot. It really filled up with people like us who didn’t want to go further. There’s Wi-Fi, but no cable. On Thursday, we left about 7:30 am and arrived at Sam’s Town Casino and RV Park around lunch time. We toured the casino and Walmart across the street. I got my nails done while Carman tried to find someone to fix his tire rim. No luck there. I made an appointment for Tux to get groomed and went swimming to cool off. It’s 114 degrees. On Friday, we drove to Aunt Sophie’s. What a beautiful home! She gave us the grand tour and then Carman took our picture.
After that we had lunch at the Village Pub and Poker. Excellent food. Sophie and I had to-go boxes. We made plans to get together on Sunday, so I could finally meet cousin Jeff.
Later in the afternoon, we went to the casino to see if Carman could become a millionaire. That didn’t happen so we had a drink and watched the laser light show at Mystic Falls. Unfortunately, we didn’t have our cameras.
Saturday morning at 10:30, we took the shuttle to the strip. We started at the Nascar cafe for lunch. They must have had 15 TVs in the bar and not one had a race on.
Then we walked the strip as far as we could in the heat, slipping into the places we wanted to see to cool off. There were so many people waiting for the bus that it was useless to pursue that. We went into the Venetian to see the gondola rides. It was so nice and cool and quiet, I could have stayed forever.
We ended up at Harrah’s about 4 and took pictures and enjoyed the sights waiting for the shuttle to take us back to Sam’s Town.
That night was a full moon and from the rv spot I had a clear shot of the Cannery Casino.
I guess I took this picture after we went to Roxie’s, a little bar inside Sam’s Town and drank for half of what things cost on the strip. They had a great little country rock band and we had buffalo wings for a snack. On Sunday we went to the Cannery and drank for free while we played the machines at the bar. Fun!
We met cousin Jeff and Aunt Sophie at Paymon’s for dinner. Great food with to go boxes all around.
Las Vegas was quite an experience, but look forward to leaving the heat behind.
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