5th June 2025

First of all, I must apologise for this Post being so late! We are eight hours behind here so some of our followers will be part-way through their day (Friday) before they see this! 😔

The reason for my tardiness is that we went to dinner at Spago here in the Bellagio,    where we are staying. We had patio seating so were able to have a close-up view of the famous Bellagio fountains every 15 minutes. We have eaten there on previous visits and they welcomed us back. As always, the food was fabulous.

Sand and Si at Spago – part of the fountains in the background

After dinner we decided to try our hand at a little gambling and managed to turn $300 into $1000 so I’d call that a successful evening all round! We won it on a Dragon Link machine (the same type of machine we had our big win on in 2023) but this was called Genghis Khan. 💵😊👏

The win!

So, back to earlier today. It was another driving day but much shorter than the other ones we have done, just 3.5 hours.

We left Williams after breakfast and a quick visit to town to check out the old Route 66 and of course, the shops!

Don’t think that fence would stop a buffalo!

On old Route 66

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before, but one the reasons we changed our plans (apart from the bad reports of the Grand Canyon North Rim) and came to Williams was because I saw a programme on television with Nick Knowles called Escaping the Grand Canyon. He came to Williams and travelled on the Grand Canyon Railway and it inspired us to do the same.

The drive was uneventful, apart from a 16 minute hold up due to road works and there’s not much to photograph along the way either.

Here are a few photos of our drive.

Welcome to Nevada

We think our roads are bad back home because of the pot-holes. Well, the roads we’ve travelled on here are far worse, if that’s possible!

We had to take the car back today so decided to drop our bags off first at the Bellagio and then return it to Hertz Car Rental. At least this car behaved itself better than last year! Although we did have an alert that the oil needed changing as soon as possible! 🤷‍♀️

We drove a total of 2,804 miles and during that time we only had one incident with Margaret on Google Maps and that was when we had a choice of three roads to take and she didn’t bother to tell us which one we should be on and so, of course, we chose the wrong one and had to turn around. We gave her a stern telling off and after that she behaved! 😂

We were a little dismayed on arrival in Vegas to discover it was raining and lightening,!! ⛈️ But that cleared up quickly and the sun came out. 🌞 It was 90ºF (32ºC).

Another hot day is forecast for today (Friday), it should reach at least 92ºF (33ºC) so it’s hats and suntan lotion all round me thinks!! 🥵🧢 😉

Thanks for reading. Back tomorrow (well today actually)! 😉