Driving and Las Vegas

I guess we were a little ambitious in our plans. This was our plan: leave San Francisco in the morning and drive 8 hours to Las Vegas (we at least made it that far!). Then spend a couple of hours there before driving the 10 hours straight to Carbondale, CO starting at almost 1 am. There weren't enough hours for me to sleep before Pramod needed to stop driving so I had a very hard time and we ended up sleeping for a few hours in the car at a gas station. We're only about 2 hours later than we had planned though, not too bad.

We've caught up with the winter though. Utah had some snow on the ground at the rest stop but now we're driving through what looks like the badlands again and there's no trace of snow.

Las Vegas! As Pramod says: "It's like being on a different planet". In India, that's what they think America is. I liked the music playing on speakers on the street so that even in walking from place to place it is like a big party. However, I wouldn't want to live in a city with that.

We had allowed $20 eac for gambling. Slot machines aren't too interesting and we don't know how to play anything else so we quit without spending that much.

We saw lots of Elvis, showgirls, a superman, batman, and Kiss. All very showy stuff. Anyway, it was fun and impressing. I'm glad we made our way down there to check it all out.