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Las Vegas - City a-go-go! What happens in Vegas, stays there. That being the case, I shall skip the dirty details of who in our party got married and how many danced on the tables.
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| Oh look, a Casino! |
Instead, three of us went “merrily, merrily, merrily” down the stream. I mean, rafting in Black Canyon on the Colorado River.
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| The Hoover Dam created Lake Mead. |
The Hoover Dam Rafting Adventures van arrived at the hotel. An hour later we climbed onto the raft.
Our guide & pilot, Sarah, cast off and soon the dam towered above. She described its construction then steered us downstream. Red ridges of earth rose steeply to flanked the green-glass water.
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| The Black Canyon is actually more red colored. |
Wet towels, soaked in the 50°F river, felt good as the temperature hit the mid-nineties. Along the way we saw wildlife and rock formations that took away every thought but wonderment.
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| Two desert big horn sheep |
The ride was exhilarating. Near noon, we stopped to picnic on a small beach. One of our group even swam in the fresh water. My feet tested the icy water and that sufficed!
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| The water is very clear. |
Too soon, it seemed, we landed at Lake Mojave. We knew that the glitter in Vegas could not compete with that beautiful canyon carved by time and the forces of nature.
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| The red shapes are barrel cacti. |
Tomorrow we’ll return to Route 66, but tonight we find ourselves contemplative.
Click here for the day that we reach the end of Route 66
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