I’m BAA-ACK!!
WE arrived home last night at 9:45. I was up this morning at 8:00 am, and I would’ve posted, but for some reason our internet didn’t work. Eric didn’t have it back up until I got back from grocery shopping. So it’s late, but it’s something!
Just for fun…some random observations from my travels:
- It drives me nuts that so many hotels do not have free internet. Especially the expensive ones. I can get free internet access at the Holiday Inn, but not in Vegas…sheesh!
- It gets a tad boring looking at rocks and holes in the ground for 10 days.
- Vegas is not that fun if you don’t drink, gamble, or enjoy looking at pictures of mostly naked women.
- Bellagio’s fountains are truly the best part of Vegas.
- My favorite national parks in order of most to least favorite
- Arches – neat visuals, fun hike
- Zion – Water in the canyon = trees, grass, vegetation, waterfalls
- Grand Canyon/Bryce Canyon – a tie here, neat spectacle, too many people
- Canyonlands – the hike (in the desert) was the best part
- Capitol Reef – NOT worth a trip by itself, but we just drove through it anyway. It’s on the way between Canyonlands and Bryce
- Utah, Arizona and Nevada are really just long, open, boring stretches of land with NOTHING around except large monoliths of rock (mostly red). There is literally a “town” maybe every 50 miles, usually with no services there.
- It is SOOO good to be home!!!
Anyway, I’ll do some pictures and details next week.
When in Vegas, after you see the Bellagio fountains you have Red Rock, Valley of Fire and hiking trails at Mt. Charleston. But after Arches and Zion it would be more hiking etc. in red rocks (except for Mt. Charleston which is pine and aspen trees and gray granite rock… I love Mt. Charleston.) By car, Mt. Charleston is only about 30 minutes from the strip. There is also Spring Mt. Ranch, just past Red Rock, a ranch which Howard Hughes owned for awhile but never lived out there.
^ I’m sure you could find some old buildings close to some of those rocks^
Shannah, welcome home! We have missed you!! I can’t wait to see pictures. Alan’s granparents used to go out where you went every year. It would be neat to see if any of your photos match theirs and how things have changed since they took their pictures.
Welcome home!!
Sounds like the kind of trip Kevin would want to take! You’d have to throw in some old buildings for him, though!
The internet thing bugged me about the hotel, too! The Red Roof Inn we stayed at in Atlanta had free internet, but at our 5-star resort, we had to pay $3.00 for 15 minutes! (We chose not to use the internet there!)
I love the Bellagio! Did you go inside? When we went (years ago), they had the most amazing arboridum (sp?) in there! It was beautiful! A little too expensive for us to stay there in a couple weeks, though!