I decided to wander along the strip again, & pick up a ticket for one of the shows in the evening. The queue for the 'half price tickets' was so long that I decided to get on the bus & visit downtown instead. To my dismay, I realised that my $5 ticket for the Deuce was not quite so good during the week. I waited ages for a bus with nothing forthcoming & ended up walking half of the way to downtown (this is a LONG way trust me). Here are the old gaming...

I drove south on the 95 and hit Vegas. The freeways were numberous, fast and with really bad holes. I feared for the tanks tyres. I eventually made it to the visitors centre which is near the main Convention Centre, a huge building. Parking proved to be somewhat problematic as they were changing/setting up some sort of structure in the carpark. The lady behind the desk was very helpful & pointed me to the free phones to enquire about accommodation. I decided ...

I had a really bad night sleep because of two things - I was freezing cold with only one blanked on the bed, and my poxy USA mobile phone reset its time to 2 hours earlier than actual time. I wonder if it had something to do with crossing into Nevada, but not sure. I had a coffee, filled the tank with petrol & set off back into National Park. I basically drove nearly every tarred road that I could without doing too much of what I had done the day before. I w...

I woke up to a snow covered Tonopah. It was so deep I feared that I would not make it out. Tonopah sits on top of a fairly high hill & it was bound to get some snow from the storm that was blowing across, but I did not think it would be quite as much. The bored lady at reception thought I would be fine without the chains as they had already cleared the roads. She was right. Also, literally, 10mins down the hill & there was no snow at all. I carried on sou...

At breakfast, I overheard a man of Japanese decent saying he had arrived in Carson City on 5th December as part of his birthday treat (think he said it was his 50th), and he had been unable to leave. Spent all night drinking & gambling at the casino's in town. I called the Gliding company and its unfortunately not possible for me to do the flight today as it would take too long for the pilot to get ready. Good thing really cos the weather was closing in as I...