Blogs from Nevada, United States, North America - page 56

Today we headed in the wrong direction (again!) so that we could visit the Mojave Desert and then head on up to Las Vegas for a few days before concluding our journey through middle America on Route 66. After taking a few photos this morning in downtown Barstow, we drove east along I-40 back to the entrance to the Mojave Desert National Preserve. We drove in the Kelbaker Road towards the Kelso Depot Visitor Centre making a stop at the Kelso Dunes along the way. These are huge sand dunes in the middle of the desert that are made by the wind blowing sand from Soda Lake, a dry lake, near Zzyzx. The sand laden winds hit the Granite Mountains and dump the sand in front of them thereby creating the massive sand dunes. You can ... read more

Went for usual walk. Completed log entries etc. and packed for our Las Vegas trip. Left at 11.00 and went to Vasanthi's place. AJ, Nanu, Shanthi, Aunty and Vasanthi were all in the kitchen cooking up special receipes for Father's Day. We had frittatas, freshly baked biscuit and crepes. Then it was gift time. All father's got gifts including R. After lunch Sri went and got a big car for our trip. Left home at 2.40 and was in Vegas by 6.40pm. Checked in at the Bellagio. We got a nice room with a wonderful view of the fountains. R was very hungry so went down and ate at a cafe in Bellagio and then went back to our room to change. Did a tour of the hotel Bellagio and then decided to do a tour ... read more

Carla: Since the last blog we’ve packed quite a bit in! Feeling a little weary now but the RV (motorhome / campervan thingy) takes the strain rather well. We started in Anaheim, CA on Sunday 3rd June (our second Sunday 3rd June after crossing the dateline) and spent 3 days there relaxing, being annoyed by the unsustainability of some Americans’ lifestyles and marvelling at the horrendous food and such gargantuan portions. We visited Disneyland on Tuesday and on Wednesday we guiltily scurried to the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana for something a bit more educational. On Thursday we drove through the Mohave Desert towards Arizona and Friday, Saturday and Sunday were spent at the Grand Canyon. (Aching calves aside it was one of my trip highlights so far). Being in a National Park at the ... read more

Day 1 We arrived in Vegas thinking we’d have to get our first taxi of the holiday from the airport to the strip. However, we found a shuttle bus that was slightly cheaper so we took the shuttle. Up until this point Oli was in the dark as to which hotels we were staying in but I could not keep the first hotel a secret any longer as I had to tell the bus driver where to drop us off. I had chosen our first night of the 6 to be in The Cosmopolitan. We arrived to a very grand registration desk with TV screens everywhere. We were given the option to upgrade our room to a 1 bedroom suite with living room and balcony with a view of the Bellagio fountains. We took the upgrade ... read more

So Blaise gambeled all his money in Vegas. We had to leave him there. He lost his sunglasses. Sybil lost her wallet (again), and found it. Jovan lost his mp3, and found it. We got the car checked and were on our way to the Grand Canyon. We stopped at the Flinstone's Campground right before the Grand Canyon. It was a weeeeird but funny campground. The campground-owner instroduced us to his crew and his 'homeboy' Nick. And invited us to join them at their Flinstone-theme-park.... read more