Vegas! And then Vegas, and.. Vegas.
We got held up a bit in Las Vegas. The original plan was for Mat to fly out of LA, but we moved a bit more slowly than we expected through the south, so we arrived in Vegas on Saturday night, and Mat got his plane home on Sunday. However, Paul also decided to join us in Vegas, and he wasn't going to arrive until Monday night, so we ended up getting stuck here for three nights for the changing of the guard. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I'll skip most of the other details, since Natalie is also blogging devoutly about each day of the trip on her trip site, but here's the summary. Saturday night, casino hopping and some gambling, leaving Mat down $60, Natalie down $1, and me up $14. High rollers, the lot of us, you can tell. Sunday night we bailed out of camping in the Valley of Fire (although it offered stunning geology, especially with the red rock all lit up by sunset) and came back to Vegas to stay two nights in the Plaza, a decent hotel/casino in the original casino district, for less than the one night in a cheap motel on Saturday. We should have known better than to be in Vegas on a Saturday night, I guess.
The plan from here is tentative, but will hopefully include San Diego, Tijuana, San Fransisco, Redwood Forest, Crater Lake, Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. This will theoretically be followed by a 2300-mile, 3-person driving rotation all the way back to Hubertus, WI. Then I will pick up my car and drive the last 400 miles a second time, going the other way, to Minneapolis, hopefully putting me back home no later than Sunday the 30th.
Somewhere between plotting our course for the trip and pondering my plan for after the trip, I've decided that there are too many roads, each with the same potential to be surprising and fun, or wearyingly boring. The whole process has given me a new appreciation of the tyranny of choice.
But now, I must wake Natalie from her nap to try the rooftop pool, get some lunch, find an internet cafe and pick up Paul. Or maybe I'll just read Kurzweil for a short while.
Adieu.
I'll skip most of the other details, since Natalie is also blogging devoutly about each day of the trip on her trip site, but here's the summary. Saturday night, casino hopping and some gambling, leaving Mat down $60, Natalie down $1, and me up $14. High rollers, the lot of us, you can tell. Sunday night we bailed out of camping in the Valley of Fire (although it offered stunning geology, especially with the red rock all lit up by sunset) and came back to Vegas to stay two nights in the Plaza, a decent hotel/casino in the original casino district, for less than the one night in a cheap motel on Saturday. We should have known better than to be in Vegas on a Saturday night, I guess.
The plan from here is tentative, but will hopefully include San Diego, Tijuana, San Fransisco, Redwood Forest, Crater Lake, Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. This will theoretically be followed by a 2300-mile, 3-person driving rotation all the way back to Hubertus, WI. Then I will pick up my car and drive the last 400 miles a second time, going the other way, to Minneapolis, hopefully putting me back home no later than Sunday the 30th.
Somewhere between plotting our course for the trip and pondering my plan for after the trip, I've decided that there are too many roads, each with the same potential to be surprising and fun, or wearyingly boring. The whole process has given me a new appreciation of the tyranny of choice.
But now, I must wake Natalie from her nap to try the rooftop pool, get some lunch, find an internet cafe and pick up Paul. Or maybe I'll just read Kurzweil for a short while.
Adieu.
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