We bid adieu to our friends at the Valley of Fire and headed to our next stop in Las Vegas. We always enjoy a stopover in Las Vegas as the people watching there is as good as it gets especially downtown at the Fremont Street Experience.
We pulled into our spot in the RV Park at the Main Street Casino in the downtown area. While it is nothing more than a glorified parking lot with full hookups it is the perfect location for us to see what we want to see. After setting up we walked over to register at the Casino Hotel Desk.
Fully registered we checked out the brewery at the Casino. Yes Main Street Casino has its own brewery! Even luckier is there is a happy hour every Monday thru Friday where draft beers are $3.00. Score! We sat down and enjoyed a few of their libations…
While in Vegas we did drive over to people watch on the strip but found the strip to be surprisingly void of the usual crowds. I have been to Vegas many times while I was a working stiff and we have been a few times since we have been on the road. This time if the sparse crowd is any indication this town is in economic trouble!
We know that Vegas is primarily for gamblers but we just love to walk around and check out all of the large casinos such as NY NY, Paris, Bellagio, Caesar’s Palace etc. When we gamble we only gamble with small change and have no desire to lose money. As such we play nickel video poker and feel we always win in Vegas as they still give free drinks to those gambling… even nickel poker!
One evening we walked from our RV the four or five blocks to the Fremont Street Experience. For those of you that have never experienced it it is an hourly light show which draws large crowds and is free. We always enjoy the Fremont Street Experience and were curious if it would be crowded…
Well again the crowds were what we were used to seeing however the people watching was as enjoyable as always. We hoped to see a few of our favorite dressed up characters hawking tips but alas we didn’t see any of them. It has been at least three years since we were last here so I guess it is not really surprising.
There were lots of people dressed up as fictional characters and the normal show girls, buff dudes and nearly topless ladies including some that certainly shouldn’t have been dressed up as they were. It was fun time people watching nonetheless…
Another Vegas stop behind us it was time to move on…
NOTE: We are now in San Diego CA for a two months before spending the rest of the winter in Arizona…
We went to Vegas and decide that once was enough we check out all the e Casinos as well and Fremont St and decided we saw what we wanted and carried on down the road.
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DeleteHow are you two handling all the fires in Southern California? The air quality has to be terrible!
ReplyDeleteOther than a bit of haze the first few days we were here we haven't really been impacted by the smoke. Probably because we are so near the coastal shore...
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