Monday July 3rd 2017

They say we’re having a heat wave. It got up to 96 here today. One hundred plus miles to the east in Salt Lake City it was a few degrees higher. Tomorrow through Friday are forecast to be even higher. Thank goodness for air conditioning.

The line between Utah (on the left) and Nevada (on the right) is a line across the street. On the south side of the street in Nevada is a Casino and on the north side of the street in Nevada is another Casino.

I spent most of the day in the RV reading and watching TV. I made one excursion to the grocery store for bread and cookies. While I was out I stopped at another one of the five casinos in town. Since Saturday I’ve stopped at one casino a day. At each casino I’ve invested twenty dollars in the penny slots. Saturday it lasted less than half an hour. Yesterday I got just under an hour of entertainment out of the twenty and today I got around an hour and a half. If the progression continues, I should leave the next casino with my twenty dollars after a couple of hours then maybe I’ll make a profit on the next day. I can only hope.

Covered bridge connecting the Wendover Nugget Casino and the Montego Bay Resort Casino.

When I entered the Montego Bay Resort Casino I was greeted by a huge video screen with a video loop of a snow storm playing. Coming in from ninety plus temperatures to that greeting was surreal. The walls of the casino had many video screens playing loops of nature scenes from all over the world. If this was Las Vegas all of the video screens would be playing advertisements.

Tomorrow the towns of West Wendover and Wendover have a fourth of July parade at 11AM and fireworks at 10:15PM. I plan to walk up to the Boulevard to watch the parade and hope to be able to see the fireworks from my campsite. Pretty much all of the sky over the town can be seen from here so I should be able to see the fireworks.