Today was a travel day. We have been camped in Overton, NV, the last few days and the temperatures have been torrid. We topped out at a bit over 110 degrees yesterday so we figured we would get up early, dump the tanks, hook up the truck and depart before the sun could barbecue us. We were out of the RV park by about 0900 which is very early for us.
We wandered through Overton and Logandale, two bleak desert communities with absolutely nobody outdoors, on our way back to I-15 where we again turned south. Nevada is mostly desert and the stretch of I-15 between Logandale and Las Vegas is no exception. If they want to run one of those survival reality shows and really want to challenge the contestants, they could plop them down in the middle of Nevada awarding the prize to any one of the suckers that makes it to a road or water. We spotted some coal-fired power plants and some massive photovoltaic solar arrays but not much else on our way toward Lost Wages.
We skirted the downtown area of Vegas on I-515 until turning off onto Boulder Blvd. A few blocks and a U-turn further and we pulled into the Las Vegas Thousand Trails which is located behind some auto parts stores and the Boulder Station casino complex. This TT facility is very tight but seemingly always full. There must be lots of RV types who are fervent gamblers because, despite there being a couple hundred RV spots within the park, there are rarely any vacant ones. We were assigned a site that the folks in the entry kiosk insisted was ample for our 34′ fifth wheel trailer and our F-250 pickup. I expressed some reservations about their assessment of adequacy and headed off into the park. When I got to the site, it turns out I was correct. Our trailer fills the entire space and our truck is squeezed in next to the trailer, only encroaching on the neighboring space enough to make it difficult to access.
The weather is about 4 degrees cooler than Overton but that still means it is 106 outside. Our air conditioner was running continuously until 11:00 PM when the temperature finally dropped below 90 degrees.