Pit Stops: Las Vegas and Holbrook

I think that I'm starting to get used to this long distance driving thing. I've covered about 1200 miles in the last week (traveling days = 3). For some that's probably not a lot of miles, but for me, it is.

I spent the last day and a half in Las Vegas visiting my grandparents. We played BINGO (my gramps favorite thing to do) and saw "V is for Vendetta" (very good in a probable post-apocalyptic world kinda way)...this was a pretty low key visit, but it was nice to see the grandfolks before heading out.

This morning I headed out from Vegas with the destination of Flagstaff, Arizona., but when I got to Flagstaff it was still early so I decided to go a little further and ended up in Holbrook, Arizona...a small town comprised mostly of hotels and bars. Holbrook is also the closest I could get to the Petrified Tree Forest and the Painted Desert, which is where I want to stop tomorrow. I should hopefully be able to post some great pictures from there.







On my trip to Holbrook I took HWY 93 South out of Las Vegas and got the added bonus of getting to drive across the Hoover Dam. I didn't want to pay the $7 (sorry I'm cheap) to park in the tourist area, so I had to park about a 1/3 mile away and the pictures aren't as great. I got a few pictures in the car too (I think I annoyed the truck behind me by stopping every few feet to take a shot - we were only going a mile an hour anyways because of traffic). Here are a few of them.





From Kingman, Arizona I hopped on Interstate 40 and have been on it ever since. If anyone has some spare days I think that they should travel along Interstate 40 because it has some very beautiful vistas. I traveled through a couple of National Parks where there are cliffs either surrounding the road or in the distance and they're framed by shafts of sunlight that are peering through the storm clouds. It's a great image...I tried to capture some of them, but I don't think that my camera did it justice.