Blowin' in the Wind

Las Vegas Nevada

Day 33

Very, very windy today, all day.  We took a two mile walk, with some of it feeling like I was walking uphill while facing the wind!  At least it was warm.

Later we drove to the Imperial Palace across the street from Caesars.  Kind of a dumpy place compared to the premier ones such as, the Bellagio, the Venetian, etc., to see the Auto Collection, over 250 cars, some of the older ones, such as the Rolls just stunning.  Hey, at least they weren't PLANES!

Jim's mom had one just like this....how his younger brother abused that poor little car!

Wouldn't it be great to win a stupid amount of money in the Lottery and pull up to Walmart in one of these?

When chrome was king

We continued on Las Vegas Blvd to the older section and to the Fremont Street Experience.  They built a canopy, 90 feet high and 5 blocks long over several of the older casinos, the original strip.  The street has been closed off to traffic and it's nice to stroll among the old casinos.  We went in one for a few minutes, and actually came out with more money than we went in with...now, THAT doesn't happen often.

Face into the wind at Fremont Street

The canopy at Fremont Street

The pool was on our list for part of the afternoon, but the wind got worse and worse.  Plan B - Jim takes a nap.  I don't know how he slept with the RV rocking  with the gusts.  His phone was acting up so we headed off to a Verizon store, thanks to Tom Tom.  Actually, the guy at Verizon gave me an address way around the other side of the airport and there was one right down the street from where we are staying.  By this time the winds were howling and kicking a lot of dust...imagine that, dust in the desert!  I stepped out of the store when I got a phone call and got a face full of sand from a gust.  We won't go into the Verizon experience...let's just say we were there for about an hour and a half.

Would have been a nice picture, if not for the stupid light pole

If Jim calls this 'Mandolin Bay' one more time....I'll scream

Serious winds on the way back.  Of course, we had to cross the airport, and we all know that they always build airports in the absolute windiest place they possibly can.  Couldn't even see the mountains and the huge hotels on the strip were disappearing in the dust too. The news said that the gusts were clocked at 60mph!

Fed the dogs dinner and they were freaked walking in the wind.
 Lil' Dummy, the gold one is pretty skittish anyway and she ran at top speed all the way back from the dog walk. 

This is Lil Dummy (Brandy) a few years ago...she was convinced that she was hiding

Jim wanted a sandwich from the deli in New York New York, so off we went downtown.  The wind made the 60 degree temperature feel much colder, and the crowds were very, very light.  Really, who wants to walk around getting sand blasted?  At home when we have this much wind, they give it a name, like....Hugo, Ike, Ivan, Charley..

The people on the news are saying that they can't remember EVER having winds like this.  Looks like we are still bringing unusual weather to everywhere we visit.  For this reason we are NOT going to visit California.

We would feel terrible about the earthquake...