Side Trips

When one is in Las Vegas not to se the Grand Canyon is a crime. We prepaid a trip while still in New York and it went down without a hitch.

The bus picked us up at our hotel at 6:20 am (yes 6:20 am!) took us to a central location where we boarded our Grand Canyon destined bus. The trip was long but we stopped for breakfast and a buffet lunch and when we got to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon it made the long trip worthwhile.

This was a sight that words can not describe. The weather was great, clear skies with good visibility. What we saw, what nature created is something that is unimaginable, it must be seen to believe it. It is unfortunate that I am colorblind and was not really able to appreciate the colors but I am sure they were there. That was what I as told.

We walked around the perimeter and interestingly at every turn one sees the view from different angles.

I think we spent about three hours at the Canyon then headed back home. Along the way we stopped on the shoulders for a minute to get a peek from the highway at the lit up Hoover Dam. It was an awesome sight.

We were dropped off at our hotel by 9:30 and in bed by midnight. It was a long, very eventful, tiring but pleasant day.

Next thing.

The next trip outside of LV we took on our own. We decided to drive over to the Hoover Dam. Actually, while it is outside of the City in the middle of a total wilderness it is only about a forty-five minute drive and a pleasant one, too.

The Hoover Dam is using the Colorado River to generate electricity. It is a technical marvel how they were able to carve that thing out of rocks and build it in such a short time, about three years.

(The Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan is being built for several years now with no end in sight and with better technology than they had in the 1930s.)

The dam itself is divided between Nevada and Arizona and we walked back and forth between the two states. We walked the entire sight and saw what there was to see from high up and from down low.

These two sights left us with such impressions that it is very hard to put them to words.