Sin City Day 3

Sunday June 28 – I hope I can get this posted before we get back home. The heat down here must have melted the internet connection. Sometime during the weekend the speed of the internet connection that we have here went from usable to snail mail speed. I couldn’t even post Saturday’s pictures until Sunday morning.
Anyway, we mostly went geocaching on The Strip today between 10 AM and 4 PM. We found 5 of them so now we can add another state to our list. Of course as we walked from cache to cache we had to stop in the casinos to cool down. The temperature hit 107 today. Even the locals were complaining because the normal temperature for this date is only 102. To us it doesn’t matter if it is 102 or 107-hot is hot.
The heat must also affect the drivers down here. They are crazy. I think they have a little game here since when a local driver sees our truck with the turn signal on to change lanes, all of the cars in the lane that we want to move into close up ranks so that there is only 6 inches between them so no one can merge into their lane. The taxi drivers have another game. They aim for you, especially if you are walking on the sidewalk. If you see a taxi cab within a block of you, you had better take cover behind a tree or duck into a casino to avoid being used as a hood ornament. Hmmm, do you think they are hired by the casinos to drum up business????
Came back to the motor home for dinner and a cool-down dip in the pool before heading out again. We just came back from doing the “Freemont Experience”. Freemont is the “Old Strip” from back in the time when a casino was just a casino. Needless to say with all the glitz and glitter of the new strip, the old strip started to fade away and loose favor among the gamblers. So the casinos got together, closed the street to car traffic, made a domed ceiling over the street and turned the Fremont Area into a street party experience with live music, light shows on the ceiling and a general party experience up and down the street. Almost like a continuous Marti Gras. Saw a guy creating incredible pictures using spray paint. We saw him do two of them in less than 10 minutes before we continued our wandering. Being the party animals that we are we were back at the motor home and in bed by 11:00. Been in over 20 casinos so far. Didn’t gamble in all of them and didn’t come out ahead gambling but didn’t do too bad either.
Don’t have much planned for tomorrow. It is supposed to be 108 degrees. Need to get the motorhome ready for leaving Tuesday morning.
Will write more later if the internet cooperates.

Caesars Palace

The Fremont Experience