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Tag: Las Vegas

Posted on September 25, 2022September 27, 2022

USA ’22 – Day 8 – Back to Nature

DAY 8 – Las Vegas to Springdale (Zion) (167 miles driven, 5.72 miles walked) We left Vegas early this morning and to be honest I wasn’t sorry. I think that the issue for me this visit was that we simply tried to do too much in a short space of time. We didn’t give the …

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Posted on September 24, 2022September 27, 2022

USA ’22 – Day 7 – Put it all on Red

DAY 7 – Barstow to Las Vegas (117 miles driven, 8.32 miles walked) When we arrived at our emergency hotel last night on the bedside table was a set of ear plugs. When a hotel provides you with complementary ear plugs that has got to be a red flag. However, we were pretty far from …

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Posted on October 7, 2017October 8, 2025

USA ’17 – Day 14 – Las Vegas, Hoover Dam & Williams, Arizona

There was one thing left that I had on my todo list before we left Las Vegas and that was to go to the Welcome to Las Vegas sign. We drove along the strip until we got to half a mile from the it when everything ground to a halt – everyone wanted to stop …

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Posted on October 6, 2017October 8, 2025

USA ’17 – Day 13 – Viva Las Vegas

Las Vegas is nuts, there is no getting away from that fact, but it is also tremendous fun. This is my second time here and I feel the same as I did the first time – this is an adults equivalent of Disneyland. We arrived yesterday afternoon and spent some time trying to orient ourselves …

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