🗺️ Current Dispatch: Las Vegas Boulevard & Tropicana Ave, Las Vegas, Nevada
⛽ Local Diesel: $4.15/gal
☕ RV-Stove Coffee: $4.50 — lukewarm, watered down, served in a casino plastic cup. Resort-pricing tax in full effect. 4/10.
⏳ Days in trip: 19
IIts second day in Vegas, and the concrete is radiating enough heat to fry an engine block on the pavement. When the mercury hits triple digits in the Mojave, you don’t care about the slot machines or the neon—you need water.
The casino corporate suits want you to believe that access to a pool requires a $400-a-night room reservation and a $50 resort fee. That’s a myth designed to extract cash from tourists. You can cool off in this town without buying a keycard if you know where to steer the rig.
I walked past the front-desk lines on the Strip this morning. While folks were waiting in line to check into overpriced towers, smart locals and road travelers were slipping right past the security gates with day passes.
If you’re looking to jump into the water without staying overnight, here is the real-world setup:
Topgolf’s Hideaway Pool: Hidden behind the main Strip, this two-level rooftop pool is open to adults 21+ with zero cover charge and no room key required. Just walk up and jump in.
Circa’s Stadium Swim (Downtown): If you want massive screens and six tiered pools, Circa lets non-guests in for a flat cover starting around $20 to $25. You get multi-million-dollar water filtration and sports on a 40-foot screen without paying for a hotel room.
Mandalay Bay Beach & MGM Grand: If you want a real wave pool or a lazy river, non-guests can purchase a single-day pass directly or through platforms like ResortPass ($25–$50 depending on the day).
The Palms & SAHARA: Off-Strip and North-Strip options like the Palms or SAHARA often offer free or low-cost daily entry for non-guests (especially on weekdays), complete with shade, loungers, and DJs.
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Before you grab a towel, here’s a quick piece of road perspective.
Las Vegas was originally settled around natural artesian springs in the Las Vegas Valley—a genuine desert oasis where travelers on the Old Spanish Trail could water their horses for free. Today, the casino conglomerates have paved over the springs and monetized every drop of water in sight.
Knowing how to bypass their paywalls to catch a breeze and cool off is a small, satisfying victory for anyone living on the open road.
Keep your water jug full, stay in the shade, and don’t pay for what you can get with a little field intelligence. I’m rolling north toward Utah by Friday.
— Brook
The Bare Economy. From the road. For the road.
Take a look at Elon Musk’s new patent below… Because it protects a new invention that could rewrite the future of wealth forever. I’m talking about a radical new form of AI I call “M.A.G.I.” One so revolutionary that Elon called it an “infinite money glitch.” What’s the upside potential here? I know this is going to sound crazy… But Elon is projecting growth of over 7,000,000%. Let that sink in. That’s enough to turn $100 into more than $7 million. This sounds absolutely insane. But then again… everything Elon has ever done sounded insane at first. Self-driving cars. Reusable rockets that land themselves. Brain chips that let paralyzed people control computers with their minds. Crazy ideas. But he turned them into trillion-dollar realities. So here’s the real question… Will you watch Elon build another empire from the sidelines… Or will you finally position yourself to potentially become one of the winners in his next trillion-dollar revolution?
We have so much to look forward to,
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