Day 22 (Friday, July 16th) Boulder City, NV

We're still stuck in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas with our truck in the shop. It looks like we'll get our truck back by Monday afternoon, so we'll have been delayed here for 4 days and we'll need to do some rescheduling to make up the time. We've decided to skip the Los Angeles and wine-country legs of our adventure and will go directly to San Francisco, instead. On the bright side, John's best friend from high school lives in Las Vegas but was working out of town for our originally scheduled visit. Ironically, he was back in Maryland. He's returned so we'll get to catch up on old times, swim in his pool, and he's offered to be our guide in Las Vegas for the weekend. With temperatures reaching 112, I think we probably won't be too active in the daylight, but we're looking forward to two evenings of seeing Vegas after the sun starts setting. When we finally do get on the road again, it'll be a relief to get out of the desert because our air conditioner doesn't really do a good job of keeping the trailer cool in this kind of weather. Most full-timers out here have two smaller air conditioner units that combine to put out more cool air than our single larger unit.