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Death Valley

These desert vistas absolutely boggle my little mind. Most people come to Las Vegas for the brash, expensive and over the top spectacle. Indeed, it is fun for a night or two. But given the choice between a night in Vegas or another night on those dunes, there's simply no contest.

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Vegas to Grand Canyon

Wide reaching vistas are the name of the game around these parts. Lots of tumbleweed and horizons that never seem to arrive. God I love the West.

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Viva Las Vegas!

Day 15. Cliché title? Glitz and glam papering over the slighty grotty cracks in the desert? That can only mean one thing, Vegas baby! As I write today's entry we are flying northwards to Vancouver to spend a few days with my Uncle David and Auntie Anne. Our route took us over directly over Death Valley. I was able to spot the valley from above by recognising the road structures, a favourite game of mine from the air! In the distance the view is framed by the High Sierras - oh and there's La

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The Grand Canyon

Day 14. Ok, let's get this out the way. WE FLEW IN A HELICOPTER TODAY!! For both of us, it was our first time and it was fantastic fun! A real buzz. People told me that the Grand Canyon was... big (I'm looking at you Ben). They weren't wrong. It is, in fact, quite big. One might say grand. But. In the last 2 weeks we've seen some pretty amazing stuff. Lots of canyons. Lots of rivers. Lots of scenery. I was pretty much averagely "whelmed" by the Grand Canyon. Apparently this is a word accord

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The Extra Terrestrial Highway

Day 10. 473 miles in a single day. We saw a whole lotta nothin' today as we crossed from one side of Nevada and out the other into Utah. We took the long way round Area 51, something to do with my allergy to the Interstate, using the E.T. highway as we did so. We journeyed past the Great Bowl and roads so long and straight we started playing guessing games for how long until the next corner. The record? 17 miles!!! Arrow straight through mile after mile of desert, no wonder people start seeing t

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Death Valley, Manzanar and Mobius Arch

Day 9. Words fail me but I'll try anyway. 49C. That really is hot. That was the maximum temperature recorded by the car in Death Valley today. We continued our roadtrip from Mammoth Lakes, in the mountains near Yosemite, to Beatty on the edge of Death Valley National Park. Rewind. The first portion of our day involved driving South and descending (thank god!) down to around 3700ft where we pulled off the highway and visited Manzanar, a Japenese internment concentration camp during WWII. P