July 6 - we land in Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps! Too bad we do! It was so hot I can’t describe it to you. I wasn’t perspiring but I was boiling inside. I am going to say it was anywhere between 103 and 106. As soon as we landed and hooked up the air conditioning to their electric we went swimming (Shirley was watching her ballgame). Les called to make a massage appointment and was lucky enough to have “pick up service” at the campground. Of course being as neurotic as I am I had him leave his wallet at home and only take enough money for the massage. I was picturing someone picking him up and never seeing him again, or even worse having no money left (LOL). All was well with that and since I didn’t have anything to do and after all, we were in Las Vegas, I went over to Circus Circus to gamble a little bit. It was fun but no luck for me and I limited myself to a little over one hour. I am going to Vegas with my girlfriend in September so no sense in blowing the bankbook now! Anyway after dinner and when it “cooled” down a bit we decided to go for a walk and see the sights. Ha! It was still 95 degrees outside at 10:00 pm and trust me it was a hot breeze. After we both took a quick cat nap we ventured out. Okay after a half hour we had both had it with the heat and headed back to the RV Park. We did take a few photos and throw a couple of bucks in the slots, but that was it for Vegas. We are uploading a special photo for Jerrod (he LOVES clowns and since we stayed at Circus Circus AND we stayed on Clown Lane we wanted him to see).

July 7 - headed out of Vegas early today, left camp at 7:15 am. Shirley had one eye open and stayed in her PJs for the day. We voted on a short day and headed to Bakersfield California. For those friends of mine from California, specifically Polly B and Nancy F you will be happy to know that the desert still exists and they are actually doing some good with it in the form of windmill farms. Other than that, Mohave Desert, more sand, a few more mountains of sand and yup that’s about it for the trip from Vegas to Bakersfield! Les selected the Orange Grove RV Resort for a couple of reasons, the first being that you could “pick your own oranges in your site” (okay so what is the season is over) and secondly that the Park had a specific RV Wash Station - yippee Dorothy would be cleaner than any of us. Really….this was the second time that Dorothy had a bath in 10 days - that’s more than some members of our family!! And really who wouldn’t want to spend 1.5 hours hand washing and hand drying the RV in 95 degree heat? I was thrilled beyond words and sweating to death when we finished (oh honey it goes so much faster when you help - come on how many times am I going to fall for that again!!!). Anyway after we finished that and made dinner it was time to do a couple of loads of laundry…Les did help with that, well he carried the basket.. In between that I shattered a wineglass all over the place so Les did vacuum the RV. We ended our evening with Les grabbing a few more photos of tractors for his brother, A Schlitz and a swim. This has been a great vacation so far and we are all so impressed with the beauty of this Country.