This is the famous sign in Downtown Reno. Bob and I remember seeing it when we visited here over 20 years ago. There are many huge casinos up and down this street. It's not at all like we remembered.

Bob and I stopped in several of the biggest casinos. We played a while, and walked out small winners in almost all of them. It was a lot of fun. This is the ELDORADO Casino. We won here too.

This huge clown stands outside the Circus Circus Casino. There is a huge midway inside. There were lots of families with kids in this casino. We won some here too.

We found a great $5.99 prime rib dinner at the Cal-Neva Casino. It was a very good dinner.

Downtown Reno is not at all like the newer casinos like the won we are camping near called the Grand Sierra Resort. We really liked it downtown. We walked in one casino after another and had a great day.

Utah's famous Salt Lake and incredible Salt Flats

If you are ever in Utah, you have to visit Salt Lake. It's not pretty, but it's the 2nd saltiest water in the world.

We all walked down to the Lake.

I couldn't believe how salty the water was. You could cure the worst sore throat gargling with it.

Leaving the Salt Lake, all along I-80 all the fields looked salty. We stopped at this location called the salt flats. We couldn't believe how much salt there was. Nothing like it!

Sally and Sue on the incredible Salt Flats. You have to see it to believe it.

Bryce Canyon, Utah

On our way to Bryce Canyon we climbed to an elevation of almost 10,000 feet. Here we saw a lot of snow that hadn't melted. The outside temperature was in the 40's here.

This is the entrance to the Bryce Canyon National Park. Jack and Shin and their dog Penny, Bob and Sally, Joe and Sue and their dog, Doc.

 

We went through a couple tunnels on the way to the canyon.

 

The unique feature about Bryce Canyon was the tower spires called Hoodoos. Some formed structures that resembled castles.

 

The whole canyon had these hoodoos everywhere. We were all singing "Who do you think you are? Mister Big Stuff". Do you remember that song?

These were white hoodoos. So beautiful. As usual, our pictures don't show the real awesome beauty.

Bob and me at one of the many observation points. See all the hoodoos?

Another observation point.

 

I couldn't resist taking this picture of a desert phlox growing in the most adverse conditions. It was very pretty with tiny white flowers.

Kolob Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah

Joe found us this really quaint RV park in Kanarraville, Utah near Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. There are only a few sites, but we had access to a nice laundry, pleasant neighbors and free library. The owner, Gail is very nice.

 

 

Utah is a beautiful state! We visited Kolob Canyon, which is just a small part of Zion National Park.

Kolob Canyon. Awesome background. It was a beautiful day for sightseeing.

So beautiful here. It is a 5 mile drive up this canyon. We were driving slow to take in all it's beauty when 3 deer crossed our path.

Jack drove us as far as the truck could go, and then we all walked up a trail to the top. I think it was a mile, but it seemed like more. I huffed and puffed the whole way, but it was worth it.

Downtown Las Vegas Freemont Street

The "Old Downtown" Vegas is a hopping place especially after dark. Freemont Street has an area that is blocked off from traffic. There is a canopy over several casinos. After dark there is music, singing, kioshes selling unique items, and the canopy has a constant light show. It's an awesome sight.

The Glitter Gulch is a topless bar. Several years ago, Bob and I accidently walked right inside. Right before our eyes were these beautiful girls dancing around poles on the stage. Bob and I just stood there in the doorway with our eyes popping out of our heads, when a man walked up to us and said "oh, excuse me, we have a 2 drink minimum". Bob and I just kind of walked out backwards and couldn't stop giggling to each other at what we had done.

This is a very famous neon sign of a cowboy smoking. It's a Vegas Landmark.

 

Also under the canopy are people that will do anything for you to take a picture of them and then expect a tip. This man had sprayed his body with gold and stood motionless like a statue.

This man was out of Alice in Wonderland and behind him, in a green skin-light outfit was a contortionist.

More weird-os. The man in the black dress was dressed up like a bride. Ugly????

These two were a pirate and his wench. She had a rack on her that protruded out beyond belief.

And of course, an Elvis impersonator.

Las Vegas

Coming into Vegas, we drove over Hoover Dam. We all had our cameras ready. All we could see was a huge concrete wall.  Very disappointing. I have seen it before, but would have loved another glimpse.

Approaching Hoover Dam
 

This was our campsite in Las Vegas. We stayed at the Mainstreet Station RV Park. We could walk to the casinos downtown. It was great.

 

This was the view from our RV. There were several casinos to choose from, but we all had the best luck at MainStreet Casino.

 

Campsite at the Grand Canyon

It is not uncommon to see these magnificent wild creatures wandering around the campsite oblivious to any of us humans. They pass right by our campsites without a care in the world. Even the campers are so used to seeing them, they don't seem to even notice them.

 

There were 5 of these elks in a cluster just a little ways from our RV

 

 

 

 

This elk was right in front of our RV. Our cats watched them from our windows.