A good friend of mine needed a ride 200 miles 1 way to Las Vegas,Nv for personel business. So I decided to make a day trip out of it since he was buying the fuel.
This was the first longer trip in my newused pickup.We left my house @5am. Grabbed my Girlfriend on the way, Fueled up and hit the hwy. I set the cruise @ 75mph and hung out in the slow lane since even @ 75 I was running slower than most everybody else.
Got to Vegas and dropped my friend off. His business was to take about 4 hrs. Girlfriend and I then headed to the strip.
I immediatly noticed that Vegas drivers drive much slower than us Ca folk and are more patient. Ca drivers run 20+ over the limit and most Vegas drivers were dead on the speedlimit.
In Ca people in the crosswalk are taking their lives in their hands but Vegas drivers wait for the Pedestrians to cross.
We had breakfast @ Circus Circus then spent a few minutes helping the Casino pay the light bill. So we left.
Passsed by the Pawn Stars place but the line was out the door and down the street so we headed over to the American restoration place.
I bought a T-Shirt here and got a few pics.
Did not see anybody from the show. We took the tour which consists of a guy walking us around and showing us the various rooms where they work on stuff.
"this is the room where we take things apart" "This is the room where we fix the dents". YAWN! BORRING!
So we headed to a natural rocky area called Red rock canyon.
Here is my 87 Ford over 200 miles from home.
After leaving here we got my friend and filled the tank.
My combined MPG which included the hwy, strip and the drive in the hills was 15.26MPG. I was very happy with that MPG since the truck is a 25 yr old 6500lb brick and I was not really trying to get great mpg. I'm sure it would have been much better @ 60MPH and less idling on the strip in traffic.
Total miles driven was 525.
Anyway the truck did great,AC was Ice cold and it didn't overheat running across the desert.
This was the first longer trip in my newused pickup.We left my house @5am. Grabbed my Girlfriend on the way, Fueled up and hit the hwy. I set the cruise @ 75mph and hung out in the slow lane since even @ 75 I was running slower than most everybody else.
Got to Vegas and dropped my friend off. His business was to take about 4 hrs. Girlfriend and I then headed to the strip.
I immediatly noticed that Vegas drivers drive much slower than us Ca folk and are more patient. Ca drivers run 20+ over the limit and most Vegas drivers were dead on the speedlimit.
In Ca people in the crosswalk are taking their lives in their hands but Vegas drivers wait for the Pedestrians to cross.
We had breakfast @ Circus Circus then spent a few minutes helping the Casino pay the light bill. So we left.
Passsed by the Pawn Stars place but the line was out the door and down the street so we headed over to the American restoration place.
I bought a T-Shirt here and got a few pics.
Did not see anybody from the show. We took the tour which consists of a guy walking us around and showing us the various rooms where they work on stuff.
"this is the room where we take things apart" "This is the room where we fix the dents". YAWN! BORRING!
So we headed to a natural rocky area called Red rock canyon.
Here is my 87 Ford over 200 miles from home.
After leaving here we got my friend and filled the tank.
My combined MPG which included the hwy, strip and the drive in the hills was 15.26MPG. I was very happy with that MPG since the truck is a 25 yr old 6500lb brick and I was not really trying to get great mpg. I'm sure it would have been much better @ 60MPH and less idling on the strip in traffic.
Total miles driven was 525.
Anyway the truck did great,AC was Ice cold and it didn't overheat running across the desert.
