Woke up to hear some banging outside and found a crew of construction workers going hard at it trying to take down an air conditioning filtration plant on the rooftop. They were having all sorts of problems and it made for interesting viewing ! Today is another beautiful sunny day and still warm at 25 degrees. I watched TV early and saw Stephen A Smith on the ESPN First Take show describing how Kobe scored 60 points in his final game last night. No wonder there was a big roar !! Later Kerry found another show, this time about some bloke who went on a trip to the Australian outback to meet some indigenous folk who showed him how they eat off the land. He was eating weird food like lily pad stems, turtle necks, wallaby ... read more

Well let’s start by finishing last night’s activities here in Las Vegas. We were having a welcoming drink at the 5 o’clock somewhere bar out the front of the Flamingo Casino which is right next door to the Linq where we are staying. After enjoying a cold beer I wander inside looking for the restrooms. Well they are not easy to find so I have to go deep inside the casino past all the tables and slot machines and finally get there. I find my way out through a different exit of the casino and back on the strip and I am a few hundred metres away from where I left Kerry ! Later she wants to know where they are so I show her the way. Now we are both inside the casino, the air ... read more

Up around 7.45am and downstairs for our final Marriott Hotel supplied buffet breakfast of this trip. A mix of scramble eggs on muffins, as well as a blueberry muffin and OJ will get me going whilst Kerry just had some cereal. Check out was a breeze and thankfully the luggage all fits in the Chrysler 200 as we did not get a chance to check it out last night. The car is a lot different to drive than the Toyota Camry which travelled 2,977 kilometres from where we started this road trip in Houston 14 days ago ! We finally got away on the road around 9.20am and headed straight out on I40 West towards New Mexico. The landscape was so flat it was amazing. You could look either left or right (although I was mostly ... read more

After yesterday’s long drive we both felt really tired today. We had bananas and a muesli bar for breakfast and then headed off in our car. We drove about 11km to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Whist it was not too far away we actually had to go on 3 separate interstate highways just to get there. Very tricky stuff early in the day navigating these massive interchanges. The museum cost $12.50 each but we had a $2- discount coupon in one of the brochures we picked up yesterday so that helped. When we went in one of the volunteers had a chat with us to explain where to go and he said it would take about 2 hours to go around. The first section was an area of paintings where they show off ... read more

Up quite late around 9.30 today and my back is improving a lot. As we got upgraded to a suite we will do all the washing today. Cloudy start to the day only about 16 degrees and a sight drizzle around. It is supposed to reach 21 later and get a bit windy but we will see. We went to Farmhouse Restaurant for breakfast at 2PM ! Kerry had 2 Pancakes with Pecans and I had 3 Pancakes with Blueberry. Simply delicious. Then we went to the famous Dicks 5 & Dime souvenir store and got the licence plate for the Bali Hut (and a cake of soap). We were lucky to find the licence plate as we walked up and down every aisle and we got blocked at the end of an aisle by a ... read more