Las Vegas

 

We left Quartzite on Monday and drove to Las Vegas where we will be for a couple of weeks.  There are many RV parks in the Las Vegas area with reviews that were mixed so we decided on the Las Vegas RV Resort as it had a great rate special going on and seemed to get the higher reviews.  It is off the strip near Sam’s Town and is in a very busy area so driving around with the trailer is a little dicey (more on that to come).  The park is very nice with large sites and nice spacing between them.  The intimidating part is the narrow interior roadways.  They can barely fit a truck towing a trailer, then you have to swing into the space and then swing out to leave.  They do escort you to the site and guide you in so that helped.  I copied a picture from Google Maps so you can see an overhead view of our space and get an idea of how narrow the roadways are.

As we needed some service work done on the trailer I had set up an appointment in advance with the local Jayco dealer.  When we got here I checked the address of the dealership to get directions from our RV park.  Come to find out I could probably throw a rock from our park and hit the dealership, but not so easy to get there with the trailer attached.  First getting out of the space.  I was sure it was going to very difficult to make the right turn onto the narrow roadway but it all worked fine.  The day before I had walked a route in the park the allowed me to exit via the larger interior roads.  Now the most direct route to the dealership would have been to make a left out of the park then a right another right then a left into the dealership.  Problem #1 – get out of the park.  The park is on S. Nellis Blvd.,  which is 6 busy lanes with a center median.  No way was a left turn feasible at 8am as I faced the possibility of getting hung up in the center with the rig blocking lanes.  So, it has to be a right turn.  Problem #2 – from Nellis, making a right, how do I now get to Boulder Highway where the dealership is.  There are no direct routes joining the two.  I had to go down about a mile and make a left onto a street, then another left and finally another left to get on Boulder Highway, then drive a mile and a half to the dealership, which was on the right.  End result I drove over 3 miles to go probably 1/2 mile.  We did make it and the repairs were done but it did take all day.

We are here for the wedding of a friend’s daughter on Valentines Day weekend.  Following that we leave for a two day stop over in Death Valley then onto Bakersfield.

Route:  From Brenda, AZ  I took US 60 towards Interstate 10, then Interstate 10 west to US 95 north which brought us into Las Vegas.