Las Vegas One

We checked into the Hotel (a giant pyramid). The next morning we took a drive out into the Mohave Desert to Red Rock Canyon. Guess why it’s called that? Yup. Red sandstone. Lots of it. And beautiful desert plants mostly in spring flower. This is the perfect time of year for desert flowers as luck would have it. A rattle snake, a jumping rat of some kind, some pictographs, a discussion with a ranger on invasive grasses and control burns, and old sandstone quarry, some folks (nuts in my opinion) repelling (abseiling for Europeans) face down. Everything you could ask for in a 13 mile drive. Oh, and my “Senior” pass got us in for free. What a treat.
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