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12-09-05:
The view of The Strip from out hotel window. The Sahara hotel can be
seen in the distance. |
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12-09-05:
Our hotel room. This is when the camera shutter started getting stuck
only partway open. That's where the black in the corners of the
picture comes from. |
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12-10-05:
Julia in the Las Vegas Springs Preserve gardens, where we found a
geocache.
(GCGVFT) |
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12-10-05:
Jonas in the gardens on a gorgeous day! |
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12-10-05:
Here is some seemingly random public art ... |
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12-10-05:
... but when you turn it this way, it really becomes ART! |
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12-10-05:
Julia signing the log of a geocache near the North Las Vegas Air
Terminal.
(GCPM8N) |
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12-10-05:
Jonas overlooking the Las Vegas Valley.
(GCQ14C) |
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12-10-05:
View of the city from the overlook. |
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12-10-05:
View of the mountains out the front window of our rental car. |
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12-10-05:
Another view of the mountains surrounding the city. This is near a
geocache that we found.
(GCJZA2) |
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12-10-05:
Another view of the mountains. |
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12-10-05:
Jonas found himself some authentic tumbleweed! |
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12-10-05:
A twirly view of the Las Vegas city lights. |
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12-11-05:
At first glance this may look like a small rock on the ground, but
it's really an enormous stone mountain in Red Rock Canyon, part of the
Calico Hills formation. |
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12-11-05:
A little chipmunk in the Calico Hills. |
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12-11-05:
Here is a lizard that appears to have lost part of its tail! Poor
thing. |
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12-11-05:
Another view of the
Calico Hills in Red Rock Canyon. If you look very carefully, you can
see tiny people scampering in the rocks. |
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12-11-05:
A side view of the Calico Hills. |
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12-11-05:
This outcropping has a really cool pattern of coloring. Wonder how
that happened! |
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12-11-05:
Here we are in one of the many beautiful red rock canyons in the area. |
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12-11-05:
Another view of this small canyon which we found while looking for a
geocache.
(GCA1FB) |
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12-11-05:
Julia stepping carefully back down to ground level. |
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12-11-05:
Jonas posing among the striking geology.
(GCM4WC) |
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12-11-05:
Jonas scampering willy-nilly through the desert! |
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12-11-05:
Jonas checking the GPS. He loves this picture! |
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12-11-05:
A pretty nice shot of the valley floor. As soon as the sun set behind
the mountains, it get chilly fast! |
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12-11-05:
Another good view of the valley floor. |
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12-11-05:
Julia in her "Don't mess with me!" stance. |
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12-11-05:
Our triumphant
shadows! |
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12-11-05:
Julia, Queen of the Desert! |
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12-11-05:
Julia on top of the world! Very cool picture! |
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12-11-05:
Oh, no! Julia is falling to her death! It really looks like it,
doesn't it? |
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12-11-05:
Jonas serenely poses with the moon. |
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12-12-05:
Julia searching for a geocache in the desert.
(GCM1ZC) |
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12-12-05:
A fun shot of the road that goes on forever. |
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12-12-05:
Julia demonstrates how cattle guards work. Moo! |
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12-12-05:
Jonas finds a geocache near the Nevada/California border.
(GC9474) |
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12-12-05:
Jonas reading the log of who has visited already. |
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12-12-05:
Julia signing the log. |
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12-12-05:
Our rental car on the dirt road that heads straight to the mountains. |
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12-12-05:
Jonas' self-portrait, titled "I look so cool in the rear view mirror." |
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12-12-05:
Julia strolling through the desert in search of another cache.
(GCR8EP) |
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12-12-05:
Julia peeks under the
cactus. Aha! |
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12-12-05:
A nice picture of the desert geology and the moon. |
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12-12-05:
One of the reflectors that were part of a VERY COOL cache in the
middle of the desert south of Las Vegas.
(GCPM78) |
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12-12-05:
Jonas with one of the many, many reflectors we had to find. |
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12-13-05:
Julia up inside the
Stratosphere tower. Did you know it is the highest building in the
American West? |
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12-13-05:
An unfortunately
washed-out picture of Vegas from the tower. |
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12-13-05:
A nicer view of the flat, flat city and the distant mountains. |
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12-13-05:
Here is the picture we captured of ourselves on the Stratosphere
webcam. Sorry it is such poor quality!
(GCQNE0) |
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12-13-05:
The Stratosphere tower roller coaster. |
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12-13-05:
Jonas inside the tower. |
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12-13-05:
Julia receiving a geocache from a drive-thru wedding chapel window.
(GCQ596) |
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12-13-05:
The drive-up wedding chapel we visited, 6 years too late. |
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12-13-05:
Julia signing the log. |
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12-13-05:
Here are all the services rendered at this drive-thru chapel.. |
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12-13-05:
Think this is a palm
tree? Think again! It's a cell phone tower with built-on leaves. |
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12-13-05:
Jonas waiting for the dancing water show at the Bellagio to begin. |
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12-13-05:
Here we are watching the water show. |
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12-13-05:
The water show outside the Bellagio. |
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12-13-05:
Julia eating some delicious gelato. |
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12-13-05:
Julia finding a geocache at dusk, just before hopping on our plane
back home.
(GCHEVV) |
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12-13-05:
A wiggly picture of Las Vegas as we were taking off. |
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12-13-05:
Whoa, we're turning. Is it making you dizzy? |
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12-13-05:
This one is cool because you can see the wing. |
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