Tripometer – 11,447 mi
Gas Gauge – 876.538 gal
Location –Wahweap RV & Campground, Page, AZ / Linq Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Lodging – $30
Cans of OFF – 4
Dave’s flight back to Baltimore leaves at OMG:30 in the morning tomorrow, necessitating an overnight stay in Las Vegas because no one, Dave included, wants to wake up 5 hours before OMG:30 and drive back into Las Vegas. Hauling the trailer back into Las Vegas at this point doesn’t make good sense from a gas or time standpoint and we can’t all go back into Las Vegas and leave the car because dogs aren’t welcome in most hotels. Someone has to stay with the dog in camp. Kelly volunteered to drive Dave into Las Vegas, spend the night and drive back to the trailer after dropping him at the airport in the morning, leaving Paul to a quiet day of chores and book reading in camp (for which he is thankful).
Paul’s Day
Aside from Laundry, a bit of reorganization in the trailer, and dog walking, ‘the day without a car’ was spent listening to his audio book looking out at the shores of Lake Powell. The goal of the chores was to reset the trailer to a freshly packed and clean state after being destroyed for a week by three inhabitants and one hell of a muddy campsite. Kelly is planning on getting back to the trailer no later than 4pm tomorrow which is the deadline before we get charged for an additional night. We have made reservations at a local RV park, some 15 minutes away, with much better cellular signal for Kelly’s first day back to work on Tuesday.
Kelly’s Day
Kelly and Dave left at about 11am and headed toward Vegas. The drive was rather uneventful until they got to the mountains overlooking the city and saw that it was almost completely obscured in dust due to the prevailing winds!
They checked into the Linq casino and secured reservations for the Linq’s High Roller, a new tourist attraction that Dave really wanted to experience before leaving Las Vegas. The High Roller is like an extremely large Ferris Wheel where each “car” is a pod that can hold 25-30 people. It takes about 30 minutes to complete an entire revolution, during which time you can enjoy a very open bar and amazing views of Las Vegas at night. After the ride, Kelly & Dave had a fantastic time walking the Promenade which was all decked out for Halloween. They topped off the evening with a late-night dinner at Guy Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen & Bar consisting of this ridiculous burger and trash can nachos.