We have now moved to Las Vegas, again an Elks Lodge in North Las Vegas. The constant wind we have had for a week continues. It is very tiring to have winds every day from10-30 mph. Driving, even in the car, is challenging.
Our plans for this week is to visit Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire State Park. We generally do touring one day, stay home a day. We are in no rush and just want to take our time.
Our Amazon order came in and is at an Amazon Locker waiting for us. We drove to the locker and the location was in an Amazon distribution center, huge, huge building. While there the daily trucks left, must have been over 100 of them The line just kept going.
Red Rock National Conservation Area
This is a National Conservation Area park that you need a reservation to drive its Scenic Drive. We didn't know this the first time we showed up and you can't get in without a reservation. Instead we drove around the mountains in the area to fill in our day. I will make a reservation and we will come back another day.
When we came back to the motor home, logged onto recreation,gov and made a reservation. Being senior citizens our America the Beautiful pass gave us free entrance but we had to pay the $2 reservation fee.
We generally like to do things early in the day and this is a good decision for this Scenic Drive. The most interesting part of the drive is in the first 5 miles and, even at 9AM, the parking lots were filling up with hikers. Earlier is better.
This is an interesting park and an excellent scenic derive that is 13 miles long. The contrast between the red sandstone and white sandstone is spellbinding.
I am taking a different approach to my pictures. I will post a few in the blog and the rest will be a link. This is much easier for me to create and maintain. Hopefully, everyone will be kept happy. Some pictures in the blog and additional pictures if you are so inclined.
Here is the URL: Red Rock National Conservation Area Click Here
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