Melbourne to Las Vegas

Hit the ground running in LA through customs by 9am oand on the bus to Hertz to pickup the Mustang hire car we had organised for our big road trip. Found our name on the hertz gold members board and proceeded to bay 328 to find a Mercedes SUV, what a total disappointment. We met the lovely Teah in the hertz office who rectified our problem by upgrading us to a Mustang 5ltr GT with never lost GPS and Sirius radio, we were set. First stop was to our shipper where ...

After a bit of a sleep in we hit the pool deck for a couple of hours before checking out, then moved onto the tropical setting at South Point our destination for tonight. Lazed around by the pool all day swimming and relaxing with the temperature hovering between 100 - 110F. Called into the In & Out burger retail shop for some last minute Vegas shopping for their cool t-shirts, and managed to get out of there without eating one of their yummy burgers. We were...

After a really comfortable night in our motel, the Staybridge Suites, which has a mini kitchen, king sized bed and small lounge area, we were ready for our day at The National Automobile Museum in Reno which is said to be among the best of its kind in the world. It features cars from the dawn of the automobile through the present day. It is also called The Harrah Collection as most of these cars were from the personal collection of William Harrah, famous Reno c...

After a quick visit to friends Randy & Teresa's this morning started our journey towards Reno about 4 hours away, pretty short trip today after our last few days. Arrived in Reno around 2:30pm and went straight to Summit Racing where Mick wanted to get a few parts for the cars. Three hours later, we were off to find tonight's accommodation the staybridge suites, great rooms and have decided to stay two nights so that we can visit the Harrah's automobile displ...