Day 24: Back to the Desert

 

We left the Luxor hotel this morning in full sunshine. We stopped at Mickey D's for coffee and breakfast, then on the road to Arizona. Our target was Snowbird West RV park where we left the the RV in good hands with RJ. In route, we washed the jeep and took a detour over the Hoover Dam for a quick photo op. Back on the road for a 6 hour drive arriving in Snowbird before a beautiful sunset. We did make a side trip to Walmart in Kingman AZ to load up on groceries for the next week or so as we will be boondocking in the desert. We meet up with RJ at Snowbird West, we unpack, and have dinner while we catch up on all things. We will be here a few days to scope out our next few weeks of AZ fun in the sun.

Miles: 273 / 2364

Lake Mead

Hoover Dam

Hoover, the approach

over the Dam

Historic Boulder City

Back in the Desert 70 degrees

Ohh the sunsets :)

Camp Snowbird West

Day 21-23: Ski Bums are done

 

Best Ski Buds

We finished up our ski trip in Park City with our Pickleball friends from Grapevine with a great day of skiing and bourbon tasting at High West. We skied, we ate, we drank, we played games, we had good old fashion fun with friends. We played 10's, Taboo, Screw your neighbor, and left, Right, Center. We cooked spaghetti one night and had pork tenderloin another. We ate out at several local holes for some good food. We called it a week as the van pulled out for the airport this morning as they were all flying back to DFW. Yolanda and Alan loaded up the Jeep for the drive back to Arizona. After a 7 hour drive, we stopped again in Vegas for a layover a the Luxor hotel instead of the MGM Grand as we did on the way out. Dinner at an Irish Pub and then lights out for another long drive tomorrow.

Miles: 431 / 2522

Lunch in the Bubble

Diana on the Gondola

Bubble people

the Chefs Jack and Bill

Trip to Midway

Park City from the Gondola

Inside the Bubble

Diana and Alan on the last lift of the day

the last run

Top of the Mountain

the Hole

Ski Bums

Downown PC

Yoli rollin down the Interstate

Day 18-20: Park City Utah

Saturday morning we head to Park City where we meetup with our pickleball group for 5 days of fun on the mountain. A short drive from Provo gets us to Park City by 1pm and we pick up our ski's at Sun and Ski sports. We then make our way to the house we rented for the week that belongs to no other than Clark Randt Jr. that was the US China ambassador 2001-2008. The house is absolutely beautiful with many artifacts from China where Ambassador Randt lived in Hong Kong for 18 years. Certainly an amazing person to read up on. We Ski, eat, and walk the town for some power shopping over the next few days.

Miles: 49 / 2091

Jack & Donna

the gang

dinner time

top of the mountain

Day 17: Travel Day

 

Today was another travel day. Six hour drive to Provo Utah to spend the night at the Hampton Inn. Absolutely nothing happened today besides a stop at Chili's for lunch along the way. St. George and the canyon drive up Interstate 15 was beautiful with sun and some clouds as the temperatures fell from the 60's to the upper 30's arriving in Provo. Justs another day in the life of AlanYoli on the road.

Miles: 379 / 2041

Day 15-16: Vegas Strip

 

We sleep in a bit, have our coffee, and then pack a few last things before hitting the road north to Vegas. Its about a 5 hour drive in the Jeep so we pulled out around 9:30am. We arrive just before 3pm at the MGM Grand hotel to secure the furthest room from check in. We shlepped our bags a quarter mile to our room and Yoli took a nap, I made a quick loop on the strip. Our room was farthest from the registration desk, but absolutely the closest to the strip. A quick trip from the 8th floor to street level put us just less than a one minute walk to the boulevard. We had tickets to see two shows, Cirque du Soleil "O" at thge Bellagio the first night, and David Copperfield at the MGM Grand the second night. We ate dinner at Gordon Ramsey's Burger one night, it was good too. The "O" show was great, I had seen it 10+ years ago and it was just as entertaining. It was Yoli's first Cirque du Soleil performance. We also stopped to see the Bellagio dancing fountains, pretty cool. Next night we enjoyed the magic of David Copperfield, and we got a lot of power walking and shopping done on the strip as well between shows.

Miles: 272 / 1662

Day 14: Pack Day

 

We have a full day in Snowbird West to prep, pack, and get ready for our road trip to Park City, UT for a week of skiing. We sleep in, have our coffee, go for a walk around the park, but mainly today we pack up the Jeep for our 11 hour drive. We do plan to stop in Vegas for some shows along the way, will chat about that in the next post. For now, resting up for the drive in the Jeep as we will be leaving the RV here for a week with RJ at Snowbird West. Thanks RJ!