Hot Las Vegas

We drove to Las Vegas on Saturday, September 26^th, and it was triple-digit hot on this early-Fall day. Our motorhome navigation system indicated what we felt.

 

Our assigned RV site had an electrical problem (reversed polarity error) that kept us from plugging in to shore power and having to run our on-board generator to power our roof top air conditioners.

They couldn’t get the electrical problem fixed, so we ended up having to pull stakes and move to a site across the street. The new RV site had a nice build out with grill, granite counters, patio table, and fire pit so we fixed dinner and ate outside in the shade.

On Sunday afternoon we headed to the strip and the Aria Resort for their buffet. After eating we headed down to the casino to watch Mike play the slot machines.

 

Julie gave me concert tickets for my birthday to go see Santana at the House of Blues in the Mandalay Bay Resort. Carlos Santana and his band played all their greatest hits and it was an awesome show. Santana is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, winner of 10 Grammys, and although 68, he can still play a guitar like I’ve never heard before.

 

Monday we went out for breakfast at Hash House A Go Go. Julie and I have eaten there a couple of times before so we knew we were going to get one of their special eggs benedict. The portions are huge and we had decided in advance to get an extra plate and share it. It was Mike, Marcia, and Regena’s first time there. The food was very good.

 

After breakfast we headed to the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, featured on the “Pawn Stars” television show on the History Channel. Julie and I had never been there before and it was fun to visit.

 

 

Then we headed to the New York, New York casino to check out the Hershey Chocolate World store and play slots. Then we walked to the Excalibur casino across the street. Wore out, we headed back to the RV park about 3PM.

 

On Tuesday, September 29^th, we went down to the strip and the Linq Casino about 4PM for dinner at Guy Fieri’s gastro pub. The food was very good. Marcia had the award winning burger with bacon and macaroni & cheese on it. After dinner we enjoyed a magical show by Mat Franco, the Season 9 winner of “America’s Got Talent”. It was very entertaining.

 

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Lake Powell (Week 2)

We thoroughly enjoyed our second week at Lake Powell. We took the boat out this past Monday, which was another warm, blue sky day.

Our campsite

Our living room window (windshield) view of lake

Sunset with moon

On Thursday, we did our annual run to Dangling Rope Marina for soft-serve ice cream. Dangling Rope is near channel marker 46 (miles from the dam) or just over 40-miles from the boat ramp near our campground. We enjoyed a picnic lunch, followed by chocolate soft serve, the only flavor they had left (must be near the end of the boating season). 

Castle Rock

Boating up Wetherill Canyon

Dangling Rope Marina

We finally decided to store our boat at Lake Powell, since we’ve been using it the most there. We found an indoor storage place in Big Water, Utah, just a few miles up the road from where we always stay at Wahweap Campground. Friday, we got the boat prepped and dropped it off at the storage place.

Yesterday (Saturday) we left Lake Powell and drove to Las Vegas with Mike, Marcia and their friend Regena to spend a week.

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Lake Powell (Week 1)

We arrived in Page, Arizona and Lake Powell on Saturday, September 12^th. Saturday was a nice, sunny warm day. Wahweap Campground assigned us three sites in Loop C.  We haven’t stayed in Loop C in a couple of years, but got lucky with some excellent, double-wide, paved sites. Our site turned out to have good afternoon shade.   

On Sunday, it began raining for three days, but only in the late afternoon and evenings. We celebrated my birthday on Monday with the annual dinner at Fiesta Mexicana in Page with Julie, my sister Marcia, brother-in-law Mike and our friends Kris and Jan from Albuquerque.

 

Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, along with Mike and Kris’s help, we replaced the bunks on the boat trailer with new pressure treated wood and carpeting.

Thursday afternoon we took the boat out with Mike & Marcia for several hours and enjoyed a swim in the lake. The skies were sunny, with temperatures in the mid-80s and the water temperature was a nice 78-degrees.

We watched the Denver Broncos-Kansas City Chiefs football game Thursday night outside the motorhome. What and exciting game it was. Go Broncos!

We took the boat out again yesterday and enjoyed lunch at the Antelope Point marina. Antelope Point was sponsoring an annual Lake Powell Challenge poker run and we saw several “go fast” off-shore type boats.

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Navajo State Park, Colorado

We arrived at Navajo State Park on Monday, August 31^st. We had a good campsite with a great view of Lake Navajo, which was up quite a bit from last year at the same time. Julie and I enjoyed a nice day out on the lake on the Wednesday before Labor Day weekend and drove 26-miles to the dam in New Mexico. We enjoyed a picnic lunch and headed back on the sunny, blue sky day.

 

On Friday, our friend Wendy stopped by on her way to the Four Corners Motorcycle Rally over Labor Day weekend in Ignacio, Colorado. The campground filled up on Friday for the weekend, but we relaxed in our campsite, and watched all the campers and boats come and go.         

On Monday, Labor Day, Wendy and her friend Gary stopped by on their motorcycles to visit with us. We hadn’t seen Gary in a few years and it was good to catch up. On Tuesday morning Wendy stopped by and we took the boat out for the day. She overnighted with us and we enjoyed dinner and a card game of 3-13. Julie won again.

We decided to leave Navajo a day early and left Friday morning, Sept. 11^th. We overnighted at the Ute Mountain Casino RV Park, just outside of Cortez, Colorado. My sister Marcia and brother-in-law Mike met us in their motorhome at the RV park.

We enjoyed the seafood buffet at the casino restaurant. The RV park gave us a voucher for $5 and we parlayed that into almost $80 winnings playing penny slot machines, which covered the cost of dinners and RV park fees. 

On Saturday, Sept. 12^th, we headed out for Page, Arizona and Lake Powell. We stopped for lunch at the Burger King in Kayenta, where they have several exhibits dedicated to the Navajo Code Talkers from World War II.

Steve & Julie Cornelius