We pulled into Vegas on May 1. I gotta tell that these time zones are kinda messin’ with my sleep. We went from Central Time Zone to Mountain, then over to Pacific and back to Mountain. For some reason I keep waking up at 7:00 AM! Dennis has been pretty happy about that! He would get up with the sun if I would quit snuggling with him. I, on the other hand, prefer rising a bit later.
We have both been to Vegas twice and did not really need or want to go back, but decided it was within our lazy three hours or less driving per day - PLUS, we get to add another state to our map. So here we are.
We had reservations at the Thousand Trails there and it was not the best place to stay. It seems as if they decided to make a few more bucks and squeeze in some more spaces by just making three sites where there would normally be only two. I guess you can say we got lucky because some guy was using an empty slip as his parking spot and rather than management telling him he cannot have two camp sites, they told us we could have the one next to his extra one and use part of it too. Basically allowing us to encroach on the empty spot as well. I wish I had taken a photo - it was pretty rough. People had really hard times pulling into and even pulling out of these slips. Everyone was parking in the street because they had no room by their RV or extra parking in the park. The staff was amazing, all of this is not their fault, but I will not be staying there again As we first came up to the gate some guy stopped and talked to Dennis and said that he was leaving and going down the street to the KOA. I later drove by three RV parks within five blocks of the Thousand Trails and they were really nice. I would have moved, but you cant really beat $23 for a whole week. Also, we weren’t there much, so not really a big deal.
We went down to Fremont Street to see the craziness and found the only restaurant and bar with a revolving bar looking over all the Shenanigans, Whisky Licker up at Binions. It was a real cool place and we got a seat in the revolving bar. That way I could have fun watching the crazies while Dennis was undisturbed by the crowd. He loves to people watch, but prefers they keep their distance from him personally. Me, I love a crowd! So, for those of you that haven’t been down there recently, they have these circles painted on the pavement and that is where the street performers are allowed to put on their show. There are the typical scantily clad young girls, some mimes, and what not.
We went to check out the Hoover Dam as well. I have never been there, but Dennis has. The Visitors Center was closed and we had expected to join a guided tour, but there were not being offered either. So, we just walked around it and ran into a guide talking about the dam and learned a few things eavesdropping on him. I ended up looking up some videos on YouTube when we got home, but I sure hated to miss the full experience. It is pretty amazing.
Next, we went to visit the Mob Museum. We really loved this place. I wish I had sprung for the interactive portions of the museum now that I have been there. They have a Crime Lab, a Distillery Tour and Tasting and a Firearm Training Simulator. This place starts with the beginnings of the mob at the gambling level - goes on to Prohibition and the mobs role in that and the prostitution and all of the terrible murders and inter mob violence and ends with the Cartels. And to top it off, the basement houses a Speakeasy. This one was cool, they have some really unique drinks and they serve them up very pretty. I would truly do this museum again, but with all of the interactive options. The bartender kept giving us tastes of the fancy drinks he was making!
We found a Casino with a brewery and tried to go there, but the entire hotel, casino, brewery was ‘Temporarily Closed.’ It was lit up at night as though it were open, but not the case. It was the Main Street Station Casino Brewery Hotel. The entire place was supposed to be a Victorian Style place. I thought it would be pretty cool, but not today folks. We also tried to eat at one of those famous Food Network Chef restaurants. Gordon Ramsey has opened up a Hell’s Kitchen in Caesars Palace but the parking garage could not fit our truck. Vehicles had to been six foot or under to enter the garage. Kinda glad we did not get into that because I got on line to see if they had any other parking - open air parking -and found out that you had to make reservations and their were no open tables for our entire stay. I then checked some of my other favorite chefs and found they had a lot of their restaurants were temporarily closed and the ones that were open you couldn’t get into them either. So we just nixed that idea.
Our bartender at the Speakeasy mentioned that we should really go see the Neon Boneyard. But you gotta see it at night. They have so many of the old iconic signs there. At night they light up the ones that have been totally restored and you get to see the in all their glory. Others they have spotlights on and you can get the idea. I really enjoyed this place and so did Dennis.
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