Las Vegas, Nevada - Las Vegas RV Resort - Week 1

Las Vegas RV Resort - Site 358

Feb. 8, 2009 (Sunday)
Up and onward. Headed for Las Vegas via 95 through the east side of California. Very barren empty land for hundreds of miles. Sure glad we didn’t have any mechanical problems on that stretch. Stopped in Needles for lunch - Bruce noticed that one of the trailer tires was split in the tread! A real miracle that it had not blown and that he saw it. He put on the spare and we made it into Vegas with any issue!  Shew!! Linda and Phil Slabaugh are here and were awaiting our arrival. We are in site 358, the row right behind them. Park looks the same as last year except a new sign with the new name - Las Vegas RV Resort.


Feb 9, 2009 (Monday)
Cool and cloudy, already missing the weather in the Rio Grande Valley!

Feb 12, 2009 (Thursday)
Went with Linda to Curves. Had a good workout! Going to try it a few times to see if I’ll stick to it.

Feb 14, 2009 (Saturday)
Went to a Doobie Brothers Concert at the Hilton. A fun concert, and as usual, a great time watching people. Didn’t know that there were so many old hippies still hanging out. Before the concert ate at the buffet at the Hilton, was good but not $19 worth.

Laughlin, Nevada

Still windy!!! Drove into Laughlin to check out some of the other casinos but didn’t want to play much to save it for Vegas. We played a very little at the Colorado Belle, went across to the Ramada, roamed the gift shops then went to the mall for lunch.  Bruce found some CDs that he had been looking for and I found a small, over the shoulder purse that is much better for the races, shopping, etc. Decided that we’d seen enough and wanted to sit out front of the RV, have a beer and watch the sun set.

AVI Casino and RV Park - Laughlin, Nevada

Wind has calmed down and lake is very big and nice. We are leaving today for Laughlin, which should have only been a couple of hours… After going up 95 through Bullhead City over to Laughlin, found that Avi was not IN Laughlin but was 10 miles south! It was right across the Colorado from us when we got to Bullhead. Oh well, scenic route once again.  Nice KOA RV park, large, gravel, full hook ups but have to pay $8 a day for WiFi!! They do have 2 computers at the office that campers can use for 30 minutes so will at least be able to check emails. The 1st site that they had for us was she said “I can’t put you in the middle of all that” which we weren’t sure what “that” was so she gave us another site #. When we drove to it someone was already in it so we parked in an empty one that was at the end of the row, close to the bathhouse/office and walked over to the office to settle our site problem.  Office seems very confused, not knowing who is where and they seem to think that the park in full but there are a LOT of empty sites, can’t figure it out, oh well. We got the site we wanted, open area out front with palm trees and bathroom close since Bruce still doesn’t like to go in the RV, goofy guy!

Our great site at AVI

AVI pool, hate it's blurry because it was nice!