June 3, Friday
Woke early because of the time difference so got organised
and leave the Zion National Park heading towards Washington, near St George UT
to find our hydraulic hose fixer. Why
isn’t there an ENZED here? After a
couple of false starts we were eventually recommended RV ZZ, not far away so
turned upon their doorstep with sad faces : (
Even though it is Friday and they are horrendously busy they take pity
on us and fit us in this morning. They
were a very friendly, accommodating team, Rabbit, Stacy and Scott, who was the
one who had to get dirty. The fitting is
broken and the hose is split so replacements are organised and 3 hours later and
$415 lighter we are back on the road.
It’s hot! Seriously hot! We stop at Walmart to buy some more hydraulic
fluid ‘cos Kim isn’t convinced of the fix and some more supplies while we are
there. Utah has strict liquor licensing
so can’t buy wine at Walmart!! Can buy
light beer though!
We are back on the road mid afternoon and look for a place
to stay tonight. We cross the State Line
into the north west corner of Arizona, drive through the Virgin Mountains
(awesome scenery once again) and about 20 minutes later we cross the State Line
into Nevada.
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| Virgin Mountains AZ |
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| Hot!! |
Our first overnight option looks a bit dodgy so will go with
option two, which is the Casa Blanca Casino RV Park, Mesquite NV a couple of
miles further. Thank goodness they have
a pool which we immediately head to,
after all it is 115 F out (45 C)!! Said
it was hot! Anyway the pool is great, busy, lots of
people, even more sun loungers (some in the shade) and we spend a very pleasant
hour or two there cooling off, but today we have crossed another time zone from
Utah with its daylight saving back into AZ and NV which is on Pacific Time, so
we don’t really know which way is up. It
must be time for a very, very cold drink and food!
As I write it’s 7 pm local time, shadows are getting longer
and the sun is just going off the RV.
They do have some live music here tonight at the Casino, so in an hour
or so will wander next door and check it out.
Aha - Kim’s just found we have cable TV.
Maybe we won’t get to the Casino…
Cable TV was dodgy so we did check out the band – The Rye
Brothers, formed just recently in 2013, three talented guitar players and a drummer. They all sang too!. They started playing Eagles
stuff but after their break changed to not so well known stuff (to us) and we called it a
night. Seriously planning to take Rock'nRoll lessons when we get home!
June 4, Saturday, Casa Blanca Casino
Staying another night, it’s going to be another scorcher
anywhere here in the Nevada desert area (110 F forecast) so we move to another site
which has some shade and have a cruisy day.
Kim is pottering, playing with speaker cables, replacing door handles,
fitting paper towel holder - where I want it!
I’ve done the laundry (that was at 6.30 am and it was hot then) and now
doing the blog. We have free WIFI at the
pool but not here at the RV park.
Spent a couple of hours at the pool until lunch time. I went
back to the water around 3 pm while Kim watched the motor racing on TV with his eyes resting. It's now 5.35 pm and temperature
is 41 C (109 F).
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| Casa Blanca Casino Pool |
Off to Vegas tomorrow!
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