All aboard the Las Vegas Foreclosure Bus

Coming to Vegas for a a visit? You can add another fun thing to do while you're here, jump on the Foreclosure Express. A fun way to spend your Saturday afternoon touring the areas foreclosed homes..... You can feel like a real scavenger preying on the misfortune of others...

There are more than 22,000 houses for sale in and around Las Vegas, 11,000 of those homes for sale are owned by banks. Home tours on the Foreclosure Express are the real estate version of speed dating. Everyone is through the house in between 5-10 minutes.

Neighbors of foreclosed homes hate seeing the bus go through their neighborhoods. To them its like seeing a flock of buzzards scooping down for the kill. No one wants to see a house in their neighborhood sell for half of what they paid for their house.

Calico Basin Red Springs

Saturday was suppose to be a beautiful day in Las Vegas. For the past couple of months the weekends around here have been nasty; high winds and rain. So we thought we would take advantage of the day and have a picnic up at Calico Basin Red Springs, which is near Red Rock. Unfortunately by the time we got to the park the high winds picked up and the skies were overcast. We made the most of it and found a picnic table to enjoy our lunch. I wish I would have brought some warmer clothes.

Calico Basin is a colorful area tucked between the gray limestone La Madre Mountains to the north, the red sandstone Calico Hills to the west, and a desert ridge to the south. Three springs with permanent water emerge from the base of the red sandstone cliffs: Red Spring, Calico Spring, and Ash Spring. Water also runs in washes to the north and south of the springs during the winter months.



Many people come here to climb the rocks.




Our first sighting of flowers in the desert.