Wednesday November 22nd 2017

The predicted great weather continued today. It topped out in the high 70s more than 10 degrees above the normal temperature. Tomorrow is expected to be similar. The beginning of next week is the expected return to normal.

Ducks hiding in the grass.

The last few days the RV park has been emptying out. Today many RVs have arrived. I don’t think of Las Vegas as a weekend RV destination, but that is exactly what it looks like. The RV park is filling up for the long weekend. The Las Vegas area is the only population center for more than one hundred miles. St George Utah is the nearest significant population area. It is one hundred and twenty five miles to the north east. The Los Angles area of California is more than two hundred miles west, Phoenix is a little further to the southwest and Reno-Carson City, the other population center in Nevada is over a 400 miles north. What that means is Las Vegas is a long way from everywhere a weekend RVer might come from.

I went to the Orleans Casino on the west side of the strip to spend a little money on “entertainment”. It’s not hard to navigate around the valley, it just isn’t easy to drive on the roads. The traffic continues to be a thing to complain about. The roads in the valley are basically a grid of roads that go from the east side of the valley to the west or from the north to the south. There are very few obstacles to road construction so they are mostly straight. Occasionally a road will end only to pick up in the same direction a mile or two later. When that happens you only need to turn right or left to the next through street. Another interesting things the government does is change the names of sections of roads to honor famous people. I’ve been on roads named for Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Jimmy Durante to name a few.

I also stopped at Home Depot to check on availability of a gas grill. It’s interesting to see all the preparation going on in the store for Black Friday. It seemed like they had all hands on deck to fill in all the available space with sale merchandise. Once they completed the setup they wrapped the displays in black plastic to keep shoppers away until Friday or tomorrow evening. I didn’t inquire when they are opening. A lot of places are opening tomorrow at 5pm or 6pm.

I wish everyone reading this on or before Thanksgiving a happy and thankful day. If you’re reading this blog entry after the holiday, I hope you had a great day. I’ll probably go to dinner at one of the area casinos. Most of them have dinner specials. I’m a little surprised that this RV park isn’t organizing anything for the monthly residents. They had a Halloween party, but I’ve seen nothing about a Thanksgiving celebration. I probably wouldn’t have participated anyway, but the choice would have been nice.