Another
year has come and gone and I find myself still in Las Vegas. I obviously had other plans. Yet here I sit. When I first started my trip I experienced
delay after delay. I guess that is where
the phrase “life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans” comes
from. An interesting parallel to the
last time that I tried to get out of Dodge is illness. While I was trying to leave last time I got
sick. I got pneumonia and had to have
surgery to have a tumor removed. This
time I again am having trouble with my health.
I never knew a nasal infection could knock you off your feet. I had to go to the emergency room and have
been on antibiotics for the last week. I
still have not knocked out the infection and will need to go back to the
doctor.
The
problem with Las Vegas is that it is either too hot or too cold. There are a couple of windows of descent
weather during the year. Round about October
you get a couple of months of mild weather.
In late November it starts to get cold.
The weather stays cold until early March. I know Vegas cold is not really cold. I talking about into the 30’s at night. Vegas rarely see snow and if it does snow it
never stays around for any length of time.
Then a couple of months of mild weather until your reach May. About mid May the temperature starts to reach
into the nineties. Soon thereafter the weather gets to the 100’s. The first year that I was here there were 110
consecutive days of plus 100 temperatures.
Las
Vegas hot is not everywhere else hot.
There is hardly any humidity in Vegas.
This translates into a less of an impact when the temperature reaches
into the 100’s. The sun itself is
brutal. It you’re in the shade no
problem. But in direct sun light, you’re
toast. Staying out of the sun is
important in Vegas. I know people who reverse
their schedules in the summer. They
sleep during the day and live their lives at night.
The
particular problem that I face is that it is very hard to live in a motor home
during a stretch of 100 degree days. A
motor home is a metal box with a few small holes in it. The temperature is magnified inside the motor
home. If it is 100 degrees outside, it
is 140 degrees in the motor home. I have
roof fans that help with this problem. I
can leave my roof fans on during the day and they circulate the air and prevent
the buildup of a heat load. But it is
still 100 degrees plus in the motor home.
It is almost a necessity to plug in during the summer. This means I need to spend $450 to park the
motor home.
I
have considered moving up in elevation.
Flagstaff is not too far from here and it is at a higher elevation. The temperature is milder there and because of
the elevation the nighttime temperature drops to a very comfortable sleeping
range. The problem is that I would have
nothing to do the rest of the time.
Decision,
decisions. I probably need to make other
plans and see what happens.
