In transition

We're in transition, ready to leave Las Vegas and ready to settle in at the river in Montana. We've been reading old fly fishing magazines, brushing up on bugs and knots, and putting the old periodicals aside so we can donate them to the campground laundry room in Montana.

Rick's been reading a new book about every three days - historical fiction. I've been playing with photos and making greeting cards while watching recorded episodes of the TV show Lost. I've watched it since the beginning, but somehow got 12 episodes behind. I've also started a new book, Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now.

The campground is thinning out a little. It seems that when 2 motorhomes leave only 1 comes in to take it's place. There are no scheduled activities in this Thousand Trails campground, unlike other TT parks, but with so much going on in Las Vegas it doesn't make sense to have organized events here. A lot of people go out to eat and gamble, some go to hike and sightsee. We've done a little sightseeing, visited a few casinos, drove up the Strip (with quite a bit of building construction going on), we even gambled at the poker table for a short time. I love to play Pai Gow poker, a slow moving card game with a $5 minimum bet, and after an hour or so I'd lost $15 and decided to give it up. High-roller, huh? We don't enjoy large crowds (of strange people) so we've stuck pretty close to home. And we've really enjoyed being in our motorhome.

Next Wednesday we'll leave here and travel about 10 miles to Cummins Intermountain for an "adjustment" on the engine. There's nothing wrong, but Cummins issued a campaign for recalibration of the ISB engines. I guess it's more of a service bulletin. The appointment should be finished quickly and then we'll be on our way to our overnight stop. I'll probably have a 6 hour drive on Wednesday and then 6 hours again on Thursday. It's getting a little warm here - 94 - and it's hard to imagine that in a week we won't be running the air conditioner. We'll be running the heater. Our low at night here is 85 and when we get to Montana we'll be lucky to have highs in the day of 75. It's going to be a nice change.

I didn't take the two photos of the Las Vegas city night lights, but remembered that some friends had been to Vegas a couple years ago and had taken some. I couldn't find any photos on the Internet that were any better than these.