Monday, December 29, 2008

Back to Pahrump 12-29-08

Today we headed back to Pahrump from Mesquite. We left just after noon. It was a gorgeous day and finally warming up a bit. When we came through Las Vegas on Friday it had the clearest air we had ever seen...today when we crested the hill above Las Vegas its smoggy haze was back. Las Vegas doesn't have a lot of freeway interchanges, but it has a LOT of traffic. It was before two o'clock in the afternoon and it was bumper to bumper, stop and go traffic from one end of the city to the other. The metering lights were on on the on-ramps too! Crazy, I guess Las Vegas is just commute traffic from dawn until ......? It was just traffic as usual, no accidents...too many cars, we were glad we didn't have the trailer this time. It took us twenty five minutes to go five miles.

The mountains are the Spring Mountains between Pahrump and Las Vegas and the last shot is Pahrump all spread out in its basin as seen from the south.






















Today is our Grandson Ian's 6th birthday! He is growing up really fast! I would post a current picture but his mother hasn't emailed me any from Christmas yet!


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