Our little video to demonstrate just how windy it was on the cruise…and how far away we were from the dam:
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Lake Mead, NV
Posted in 2010 Southwest, Nevada, Videos on September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lake Mead, Nevada
Posted in 2010 Southwest, Nevada on September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When we imagined a riverboat cruise around Lake Mead, we thought it would be more like the Mailboat Run ferry cruise we had enjoyed in Portland, Maine. In fact, it was much duller, and we were, by far, the youngest people on board. It was a windy and far too relaxing 90-minute cruise, but we [...]
Hoover Dam, Nevada and Arizona Border
Posted in 2010 Southwest, Arizona, Nevada on September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, our last full day in Las Vegas, we slept in (until 7 am!) and had breakfast at Hash House a Go Go in the Imperial Palace. Paul liked his meatloaf hash, and Jen tolerated her egg scramble with chicken and red peppers (she really should have ordered the French toast). We sat in [...]
Valley of Fire State Park, NV
Posted in 2010 Southwest, Nevada, Videos on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This video makes it look like Paul is driving very erratically, but really Jen just isn’t very good at holding the camera steady in a moving car (or any other time, really). The views through Valley of Fire State Park were very nice:
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
Posted in 2010 Southwest, Nevada on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After the day heated up, we were happy to leave Red Rock Canyon for Valley of Fire State Park, about an hour away from Las Vegas. We didn’t hike in this park, but we drove through it and stopped often at the overlooks and attractions. Paul climbed on the rocks whenever he could. When we [...]
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada
Posted in 2010 Southwest, Nevada on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On our first full day in Las Vegas, we woke up early (6-7 a.m., every day) and had breakfast at B.B. King’s Blues Club in the Mirage. We had planned to do a couple of hikes in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, only about 15 minutes from Las Vegas, before the weather got too [...]
Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas, NV
Posted in 2010 Southwest, Nevada, Videos on September 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jen bought an inexpensive, point-and-shoot digital camera for this trip in order to carry it into the Narrows at Zion National Park (she didn’t want to drop the DSLR into the water.) As an added bonus, the new Panasonic Lumix was tiny, took decent pictures, and captured video. We shot a few videos using the [...]
Vacation #9 – Southwest 2010, beginning in Las Vegas, NV
Posted in 2010 Southwest, Nevada on September 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Though we came pretty close to finally booking either a cruise or land tour of Alaska in 2010, we ultimately decided that it was more important to return to the Southwest. Like the first time we traveled to this part of the country, we split our time between two locations – only this time, we [...]
Hoover Dam, NV
Posted in 2007 Southwest, Nevada on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our second full day in Las Vegas began with another early tour – this one on a bus. Actually, our original tour company had cancelled our Grand Canyon trip the night before, citing bad weather. This should have been a warning to us, but instead, we called another company and purchased seats on a bus [...]
VACATION 4 – Las Vegas, NV
Posted in 2007 Southwest, Nevada on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We chose Las Vegas as the first “home base” of this trip because it was convenient. We stayed at the Luxor (the pyramid) and actually never left it to explore the Strip. In retrospect, we wish we had at least gone to see the fountains at the Bellagio. Both mornings in Las Vegas, we ate [...]
