journeyacrossamerica: April 21/Las Vegas

Welcome to our journey

This is a record of our road trip adventure as we take our first forage into the states with the truck camper and novice camper Daisy Doodle. The plan is to leave tomorrow, the 26th, and spend the first night with good friends inPort Stanley then accross the border at Detroit the next day. From there to the south! Far enough Rob says to remove the long underwear and put on the sandals! After we get a couple of days of relaxation it will be making our leasurely way to California
and up the west coast to Vancouver Island for the middle of May for the anticipated birth of a new granddaughter!

Saturday 23 April 2011

April 21/Las Vegas

Beautiful sunny morning, bit windy though. Left nice and early for the 11/2 hour drive to Las Vegas. Spent at least 1/2 hour trying to find a parking spot. Didn't realize Vegas was so big! Did a walk up 'The Strip" with Daisy, used the bathroom at the Venetian, turned around and drove back! All and all I figured out it was at least 4 hours to use the potty! This is what I call the "Billy Bob Economy Tour".
But it wasn't a total loss... we stopped at the Hoover Dam.... were told that Daisy wasn't allowed out of the truck and couldn't be left alone so we drove over the dam got lots of pictures from the truck! I don't think I would have been comfortable anyway, way too HIGH for me! The winds were really gusty too, so it was a good thing we didn't have the camper on! They even had wind warnings posted on the highway!
So wer're going to spend tomorrow hangin' at the campsite. Catch some sun and do some quilting (sorry Amy still haven't got the new one's quilt finished yet).