Nevada

Fire Cove Breakfast  To Lake Mead?

 

  "New Beige" in front of Lake Mead

Fear & Loathing

 

1/26/12

I am currently sitting in our hotel room at the Stratosphere on the strip in Las Vegas.  We have to pay 11.99 for 24 hours of internet access and since I have an iphone for emergencies we aren’t getting wifi for the computer.  Lame!  They have a network that looks open labeled “Travelers wifi” and another labeled “Hot Sexy Girls”.  I’ve tried both, but to no avail yet, so I’m just writing this on my computer and I’ll just post them later, I guess.

This morning we woke up in our truck and both decided that it was the best night’s sleep in the truck thus far.  Last night found a wildlife management area with picnic tables and camping areas, and no one else there.  When we turned in it was a little early, 7pm,  but it was dark and we gained an hour after crossing the border in NV so we called it quits for driving and climbed in the back to read our books and get some sleep. 

When morning arrived we drove on to another federal recreation area of some sort, near Lake Mead, and drove out a 4x4 road to cook our breakfast.  This area was called Fire Cove and we drove most of the way down an arroyo, it seemed.  We had a nice spot to pull out our gear and cook some oatmeal and hot tea.  Then we biked and hiked about 2 miles to the edge of Lake Mead.  It was a nice morning activity and Jon spotted a Bald Eagle.  At this point we were about 70 miles from Vegas so we kept driving the scenic route there and eventually we came to a Red Rock pull off.  We had lunch and did a little 1 mile loop hike in the rocks.  The hike was pretty spectacular with a lot of red rock sandstone formations and caves. 

Now we are in the Stratosphere hotel, which is at the far north end of the strip and I had thought that we would possibly go walk the strip to check out the scene but we are pretty far from all that.  We picked up some food at the Whole Foods salad bar for dinner and now we are going to start having some drinks and gearing up for the big show tonight.  We are going to see Bite, which is a classic rock, topless, acrobatic, vampire show.  Should be a pretty good show!  It’s at 10:30 so we have a little while to go but I’ll let you know how it goes on the next blog….I wonder if I’ll get bitten.