Day 12 Woke up and pressed the open blackout curtain button. It is pretty cool to wake up to Vegas strip views in bright sunshine. Buffet breakfast (yep heaps of food) and off to the North Vegas Premium Outlets. Out of all the outlets we have been to I think this one is the best. Between Calvin Klein and Timberland I reckon I saved about $400 and have my clothes and shoe shopping done for another year. It was getting bloody hot and these outlets are not roofed i...

We booked into Aria Resort and Casino which has only opened in the last 12 months. The rooms are fantastic, we got a strip view room on the 19th floor. Everything is operated by a bedside touch device a bit like the telstra t-hub. Took a few hours of messing around before we were finally settled. Vegas Hotel receptions are like a mad house in the early afternoons. There a big queues and everyone is either checking in or out. There is no point in not having a go o...

We just spent day eight lazing around. The girls spent a lot of time at the factory outlets and got some great bargains. Day nine we headed to Laughlin and then Hoover Dam. Laughlin had some riverfest on where there were thousands of people floating down the river on many different inflatable flotation devices. It was that crowded it wasn't even worth looking around. There is a new bridge over the Hoover Dam named after Pat Tillman who lost his life in Afghanista...

The intention is to cruise down to Death Valley or close to, then stop for the night and continue on in the morning. Leaving Reno/Carson City we head south towards Mono lake. It is an amazing landscape, the sides of the road look like the ground exploded up and pushed all this burnt rock up. The road got up to 2540m above sea level which is 300m higher than Australia's highest mountain Mt Kosciuszko. The drive down the I395 was fantastic, we were driving down a ...