Saturday, May 31, 2008

Celebs in Vegas

In Vegas you bump into a whole lot of Celebrities and I had my photo taken with just a few! Check these pics! World Class!






On The Strip



Vegas! The city that works 24/7 and contains a very diverse set of tourist’s day in day out. The nights are more impressive with all the lights than the bright days, but out in this desert the temperatures rarely dip below 25 degrees C even at night.



The famous Vegas Strip consists of several theme hotels and casinos ranging from Ceasers Palace to Monte Carlo and the very impressive Balagio and the Venetian. Day and night the sidewalks are packed with people, drinking alcohol and smoking is allowed where ever you go. The casinos are busy all day and night. The diversity of people is amazing. There are a lot of oversized people here with little dress sense or no access to mirrors. Some of the outfits women wear look like they were designed for a ramp model but the new owner weighs in at 250 pounds. Lesleigh and I joke that Hippo’s need to come out of the water at night to feed.

The waitresses in the hotels are dressed in very skimpy suits that definitely don’t cover the bum or the boobs and they walk round all day and night just serving gamblers with free drinks. There are also night clubs and these are popular but really expensive and loaded with really good looking women, wearing as little as possible (due to the hot weather?)

Friday, May 30, 2008

On Route to Vegas


On route to Vegas we saw the impressive Hoover Dam after a long drive through desert landscapes. You can watch your dog run away for three days from your front door in these neighbourhoods. Are we going to settle here? Not if we dont have to.

The photo below shows a bridge being built in the background over the Hoover Dam gorge. trust me this bridge is going to be a lot higher than Blou Krans in the Eastern Cape and watching the construction is amazing albeit for a short while.
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Eagle Eye Of The Grand Canyon





On wednesday morning we decided to splash out and take a helicopter flip over the Canyon. I had no idea that this was Lesleigh's first helicopter flight. She loved the flip in the chopper and we got to see some fantastic views. As Murphy's law would have it my camera jammed as we entered the Canyon and so the pics are taken on a small mik n druk.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Wonders of the World

They say a picture says more than a thousand words and this is just what I intend to share with all of you on a two day trip from Denver to Durango and then onto the Grand Canyon. The scenery and contrasts in landscapes were over whelming. Take a look these sites are breath taking. The order of photographs are placed with the Grand Canyon first and the road all the way back into Evergreen in Denver.










This is the start of the Grand Canyon behind where we stand. The pic on the right is just a snap of the type of lanscape we passed on route to the Canyon.











These photo's show an interesting site where one point marks the cross over of four states, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Yes we crossed four states in one day!





This snap is the road ahead of us at the top of the pass. We had to drive under an ice flow as you can see just ahead. The roads were narrow but what an experience.





We took time out on the mountain pass to take in the views and stretch the legs, Lesleigh drove most of the pass and I just hugged the car door as the roads had little or no barriers and the descent was miles at the minimum and dont forget the passenger sits on the cliff edge when you drive on the right hand side.









The little ski town at the foothills of the pass. seen here on the left. The right is a picture of snow melt at the start of Spring.










The rocks are spectacular to look at as they varied in colour and shapes throughout the journey.







This is a wine estate in Palasade, the wine here is sweet and I have not yet found one that satifies my pallet, but I will keep trying, promise.





A typical tunnel, that takes us through a mountain, an engineering feat.




The pics of the train are the famous ride on a staemer between Silverton and Durango.








The Road out of Denver onto Vail and Copper Mountain are captivating. I must confess these would be very dangerous to drive in winter.