the Hoover Dam

Living it up in Las Vegas

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February 22nd 2006
Las Vegas: 22nd - 25th February 2006 We left San Francisco at 7.15am to make it back to the airport in time for our hop over to Las Vegas. Arriving at the airport in Las Vegas was truly bizarre, as you fly in you're surrounded by a mass of desert, and then the Strip becomes visible with all these insanely shaped buildings that are your first glimpse of the casinos. In the airport itself, ther ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more