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January 27, 2005
Las Vegas Day Four
Today the weather cleared up somewhat - yay! So Jim and I took a ride out to Red Rock Canyon, about an hour away from Las Vegas. It was so amazing! I've never seen mountains like we saw in Red Rock Canyon. It was incredible. Now I know it's not anything like the Rocky Mountains or places like that but these mountains still looked pretty huge to me!
Seeing the desert was pretty neat too. I was surprised by how much greenery there actually was. Apparently there's more rain in that area of the desert than there is elsewhere so it can support a lot more than it might somewhere that they only get an inch or two of rain. It was pretty cool to see cacti that were native rather than growing in a pot!
There were still plenty of clouds today unfortunately but the 13-mile scenic drive through Red Rock Canyon was still beautiful anyway. Scenes like this were what we saw all around us.
In the desert after a lot of rain there is always the risk of flash floods. There were several places where it was also very obvious that floods had done quite a bit of damage. After all the rain yesterday there must have been some flooding since we came to this area where water was flowing across the road and there was plenty of standing water elsewhere.
Posted by silverdsl at January 27, 2005 07:29 PM