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Published: April 12th 2013
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Red Rock Canyon
Aaron and Tracy and Tam and Ron This is a catching up blog since we have had very limited internet for a while.
We have had our Las Vegas adventure thanks to Aaron and Tracy. They showed us how to conquer the Vegas strip by using trams, monorails, overpasses, elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, shuttle busses, taxis and plain old foot power. March 30 - April 5 was a great week with a mix of hiking, a Vegas show, buffets and slot machines. We also got to spend Easter with family and celebrated 2 birthdays.
To start the week we set up our camper at Sam's Town Casino which has a free shuttle to the strip which is nine miles SW. Using the shuttle made it easy for Aaron and Tracy to get back and forth from their hotel to our campground once they flew into Vegas. It was also easier for us to take the shuttle in than drive that big old truck when we stayed in a hotel for 2 nights to see David Copperfield's show at the MGM. Aaron and Tracy treated us to the special
24 hour Buffet of Buffets which meant that we could eat at any of the buffets that belong
Red Rock
A beautiful day for rock scrambling to the Ceaser's chain. Our first dinner buffet was at Planet Hollywood, breakfast was at the Flamingo, lunch at the Paris, and dinner #2 at the Rio. We'll be working the pounds off for a couple weeks!
But it was not all eating and gambling while we were in Vegas. We also went to two different areas for hiking. Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire, are both places so unique and well worth renting a car to go see if you fly into Vegas. We located 5 geocaches along the way. It was great seeing Aaron and Tracy and being able to share this adventure with them. Lots of pictures of our time together follow.
Between our last blog and Vegas we hiked in Sedona and then stayed at Cattail Cove State Park State Park by Lake Havasau . We hiked the West Trail in Sedona - a trail that has 18 water crossings, we went as far as 8 crossings and then things got pretty tricky so we ate our lunch and headed back. The park at Lake Havasau looked old and tired to us. It was built at a time when campers were smaller and
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Big Horn Sheep there has been very little updating. But as a campground to access the Lake it is pretty nice. We kayaked a bit of the lake in a no wake zone by the Bill Williams NWR and felt dwarfed by the cliffs.
Remember when we were at Hunting Island State Park and a whale beached itself? My friend Janis was there in March and this is what she found out..... thanks for sharing the info Janis
'the Fripp Audubon Society was having someone speak about the whales of the sea islands… The talk was really excellent and he talked about the ones that beached when you were here. He said any time a whale is beached, there's something really bad wrong with it and it's really pointless to try and keep pushing it back out. And they think that when the leader beaches, then others follow. He said one time a bunch were beaching and they took the one that was obviously in bad shape away, and pushed the others out....they went out a ways and he said "had a conference, an election, then followed their new leader out and away"!! A lot of times the problem is a
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Aaron sitting in one of the thousands of caves carved into the rock. boat strike, and the whale has broken ribs that you can't see. Sad that so many get hit by boats. He said there are only 350 Northern Right Whales left in the whole world, but they see about 50 of them here each year!'
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Paul Kulesa
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Good to hear from you again
Vegas. If that does not prevent you from returning home, I suspect you'll be traveling again next year. It has to be difficult to return home to this flat featureless (relative featureless-ness) area. Tulip are peaking through the winter debris and the trees are budding. Still unusually cool and wet. Not time to return yet. p