Kind of want to clear that up a little bit. Your first impression coming here
might be a little like ours. You're talking about taking this whole thing
out? Wow, you even have like a mirror! First part of
October it's beautiful up here! Like a rattlesnake! Eyes on path! You'll
notice that blue dot where you're at. We just don't want a big fifth wheel.
Michelle's been talking a lot about just getting a van lately.
Which is away from Vegas. We are not going to end up, up there! There's a pack of
wolves up here! We're so close! There's the car. It's so
much easier. Hummingbirds just flying all over.
ba-bye!
Now we're at Thousand Trails, uh...in Las Vegas.
I'm gonna run up and get our mail here at the office this morning. I thought i would show you around just a little bit before we take off on a hike
today. Got a lot of people that we've ran
across that have asked about Thousand Trails
here in Las Vegas and have heard some stories. Kind of want to
clear that up a little bit.
We got our mail... as you can see they've got the uh
hot tub closed off because of covid.
On the other side of that fence is a pretty busy road, so a little noisy.
Everybody talks about how tight these spaces are here... some of these are
pretty tight and some of them have a little more room
of course, but it's like about any campgrounds it just depends on
what site you're in. Sometimes it can get a little tight especially if one person
pulls over a little too far and it cramps you in from the next guy next to
you. Your first impression coming here might
be a little like ours, especially on this one side of the park.
There's a fence up... a little barbed wire fence and it kind of makes
you feel like you're in a prison. (giggle) But to be totally honest with you, we've
never had not one problem while we've been here
and we've been here at least four times. There's your entrance.
As you can see here, these are a little tight right through here.
They barely had room for their awnings.
For laundry facilities they have these little shower houses
and each of them have like a couple washers and dryers in there.
All the times that we've been here we've not had any issues
and the staff has always been extremely nice and helpful.
Shen you come to Vegas you usually come to Vegas to
enjoy the things in Vegas not enjoy the campgrounds.
It's kind of like when you come here to stay in a hotel to go to Vegas... some
people like to stay in a nice hotel and some people try to get the cheapest
hotel they can because they realize all they're going to do there is sleep.
As you can see there's some big rigs in here,
big Class A's... which uh, brings me to the point...
I kind of wonder what it's going to be like if we had an Airstream.
Is it going to make it easier or harder depending on what the length is of that
Airstream. Which also brings up... we went to
Airstream the other day! We need to really decide if we think we
can live full-time in something like this. Remember there's
the big closet in the bathroom. Oh okay. So you got these... these are kind
of extras. So, you would do a twin? I mean a separate
bed? I like the twin because you have an
outside storage with the twin on both sides which is pretty good size
and a front storage up there as well. It gives you
a lot more storage and it makes the walkway...
just makes it feel more open having that walkway like that.
I could do this wood! It's not that dark! But i like the white much better. Oh... well... yeah.
And there's so many things that we like about it and so many things we don't.
This is your only oven that you get. Have to use that Instantpot
more i guess. Yeah! Is this your trash? Yeah, that's trash... has a little inset
there. We'd be taking the trash out even more than we do now! No kidding!
But as you can see if I had a hole right here. Yeah!
Plenty of room! I'd have plenty of... we'd both have plenty of space to
work. Yeah! You're talking about taking this whole thing out? No I'd rather have
like a... this small section here in the middle. It
would have to be smaller. No. Yes! It would not. Here's your length
for your hole right there, okay? It comes to here.
Okay this length...
is the same length. So it would be centered and give the exact same hole
space. And who knows, it might be made that way
for that option. That doesn't go back all the way to the
wall. So you'd have to get that wood piece
and cover the rest of the way of this wall. So yeah, you still should be able to
do that. I forgot that this was a big closet here.
Nice solid door. Oh, and they like get brighter
when you first turn it on. Oh i like this, a little cord
behind your towel. Yeah, this is so big. Wow, even have like a mirror!
The thing i don't like, is those cannot be ran manual. So if one of those motors
ever went bad it would be stuck in the place that it's at.
This is the button for the table to go down. Then you put your extra
cushions on here for your bed. All right well let's move on. Did it help
going to look at airstream again? I don't think so.
This campground is uh
there's really nothing that they... besides the pool, the pool is pretty nice.
But that's about all we ever want to do here.
Yeah. We just use this campground to be in Vegas,
be near all the attractions... but you can only get so much of the strip and
people watching, so we're gonna go on a hike today... and hopefully it'll be a fun
one! You here today? I am. Are you tired?
I am tired, we were up late last night walking the strip. You slept in today too.
I think that makes me even more groggy. Ding ding ding! (Siri) "in three quarters of a mile
take a slight right turn to merge onto us 95 north."
Okay i didn't have enough coffee
we can get some more not if we're gonna go on a hike
30 to 40 minutes up the up to mount charleston and you got all these fall
colors i honestly forgot all about it yeah
we're over 6 000 feet in elevation and yeah in
uh first part of october it's beautiful up here
it really is and it's 71 degrees and it was 91 when we left our rv
there's a sign right there it says elevation 7 000.
yep this was a pleasant surprise did you even think about that i didn't
think about the fall colors now
and give us a fresh start
so beautiful up here isn't it it's gorgeous we are here
get all excited about coming up here and it's so pretty
and then all of a sudden get out and the bugs attack you forget all about the
bugs
i believe that's cathedral we want to go this way
that away lead of the way
you start to see the colors like the aspen i think that's what the yellow
ones are oh yeah
lots of ponderosa pine
and sure some other kind of pine lots of
pines
i know if you realize that this mount charleston is really close
to the vegas area less than an hour and you got all these pines
summerlin the west side of vegas about 30 minutes
from thousand trails it's still less than an hour and that's clear on the
east side of vegas
and in the winter it's closed because it is also prone to avalanche a
lot of these trees that are down was from an older avalanche
hiking shoes you guys i'm liking them they're very light
and the traction is good i like them good
how about because yours i do like them yeah i wear them for everything
don't forget to look up because there's always some beauty you might miss
yeah and don't forget to look down because there might be some things that
are not so beautiful right like a rattlesnake eyes on path eyes on
path hey siri what's the temperature in las
vegas
it's about 90 degrees outside what's the temperature in mount
charleston it's currently 66 degrees it appears you're at 7 613 feet
i started noticing that we're going down instead of up
sometimes on these trails there's uh the other
shorter trails that go off of them that you can take so opened up all trails and
looked at the map to see where we're at see that blue dot
red line's where we're supposed to be
i think we missed a trail this might be uh more of a four mile
hike today even better we got to wear off all that pie don't we
yeah be careful some sharp rocks about that all trails
app you might be thinking you know what if
you don't have cell service well the map still work well you can
create an account and you can download the map before you
get to your destination before you get to your trail and then
you can use that map even if you don't have cell service
and it'll um it'll just use the satellite
you'll notice that blue dot where you're at will start
floating away now and then it gives you an idea where you're at if you start
floating clear down here you know you went way off your trail
i love the mountain mountains hiking yeah just it's so peaceful i know a lot
of you have been wondering about that rv thing and what
we're gonna do and i know we've told you that we we
wish we knew too because we really do we're having a
really hard time trying to decide it's really hard to say we might have to
wait until vinnie's sold and then just kind of like we first started out when
we sold our house it kind of forced us to get something
i know but i didn't really want to do that no
no but we'll figure it out we've got some ideas but
fifth wheel's still in mind but we just don't want a big fifth wheel
would help
let me give you a piece of advice she said
just hold on to what you believe in
under bridges and heavy rocks we keep on dancing yes
with that fifth wheel thing we were talking about michelle's been talking a
lot about just getting a van lately oh whatever let's go
we've been up here to mount charleston so many times but it would never
i know like any of these trails i was gonna say i think this is the fourth
time we've been up here and like the first
hike because we've just like driven areas and
we've ate at the lodge down there a couple
times two three times when you spent a lot of time in vegas
you just want to get away and see something different
it's not very far at all it's awesome to come up here this is one of my favorite
places in vegas which is away from vegas actually it is
still considered a las vegas address do you notice that
which is odd yeah i think it's not
charleston
you okay back there ah let's check it i think those people
this went by real fast he said they're hurrying because there's
a pack of wolves up here we should probably turn around
you never believe me we're so close
reach out and touch it
we are only halfway michelle says look at the trail
see does it get quicker quicker we're only halfway there's no trolley
okay i think we determined this is as far as we're going a little
over halfway this trail will go on up and it kind of
zigzags and it ends up up here
somewhere according to the map we are not going to end up there we're
going to end up down there it's kind of a
moderate on the difficult side yeah trail just because the steep and the
rock and the altitude
in the altitude no how steep of the rock yeah something see altitude it's a very
difficult because of the sleep of the road
we're gonna head back to the car and we'll see you down in the car
ready see if this works three two one and here we are where's the car
it's so much easier coming down you broke in those new shoes
yeah all right i need to tinkle now we're at mount charleston lodge
parking is back here behind the parking in the front side it's kind
of weird because here's the back side of the lodge
but the parking in the front is supposed to be for the the cabins
and the guests there is what we understand all of it
there's more parking in the back now about all the signs we keep seeing signs
up here it says it's for a cabin guests
there is a 45 minute to an hour wait so we're just going to go find somewhere
else to eat but yeah of course they have some inside seating
and outdoor seating i believe there was a fireplace in the
middle too yeah you can see it you can see the chimney coming up at the
top of the roof there one of them is outside yeah one of our
first times here we were standing right here taking a
picture in front of the mount charleston sign and there were hummingbirds just
flying all over in these big pines right here really pretty
well here we go yeah
enjoy this drive down go get some grub and call today
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