After the desert we are cooling down at this very comfortable RV Park. We enjoy the bowling and the pool.
I think that most of our german friends have no idea how many American RV parks look like. It's rather like a big parking lot and has nothing to do with the camp grounds we know.
This one was really nice. That didn't help though that it was very hot and in the evening we had to have a very quick dinner because with the sun set came the cock roaches out of their hiding places and invaded our picnic spot. We kept the AC running day and night and we still had 95F at night!
July 16th
Exploring the amazing nature is a great experience but today we are heading to THE city! Unfortunately, oil is leaking from our caravan and the main plug for the electric hook-up is broken so that we have to go to a garage - why do these things happen on Fridays?!
We still take the time to go on a scenic loop through the Red Rock Canyon on our Way to Vegas. These old sand dunes are so incredibly red!!
Finally at the garage in L.V. we're told that the differential is broken and that we need an exchange. Had I mentioned that our R.V. is totally old and shabby and I had to clean it before moving in? Well, we could hope for a new and better one now. Unfortunately, the central office doesn't agree, sends us to another garage that fixes the differential ... and we are spending the whole day waiting for our truck instead of making millions in the L.V. casinos. We only cross the city on our way to an RV park in Boulder City (at least we have to pick up the keys for the bathrooms in the Casino! How exciting!!!)
We were not the only ones int the streets....
We enjoy the pool and sweat through the night (still 100F).
July 17th
As our plug is still broken we don't go back to L.V. but to Cruise America's main hub to get it fixed... Afterwards we cross the Hoover Dam with Lake Mead which is impressingly big but alarmingly empty!
We continue our trip east wards to the Grand Canyon and shortly before Williams we get into a thunderstorm with heavy rain - I thought we were in the desert...
Only at 6 p.m. we arrive at the Grand Canyon, jump into a shuttle for Hermit Point and after a short walk to Hopi Point where we get to watch a breath taking sunset!!!
Wow. This is so big and red and deep and all these cliffs and far far down the Colorado River!
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