June 6th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
Got up late. Went to the ‘Wizard of Suds’ to do some laundry. Friendly place. We’d checked the hotel prices for laundry, but it started at $2.50 for a pair of socks. It cost us $2.75 to do the whole lot in the Wizard of Suds. And we got [...]
June 5th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
We went on a helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon. A shuttle bus collected us from the hotel and took us to the airport, and then we had a 35-minute ride in a helicopter – which was great fun – to the canyon floor via the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. In the [...]
June 4th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
Got up late, and then went for a walk along the strip, looking in some of the hotel casinos. They are very big, and once in it quickly becomes hard to find the way back out. They have different themes – New York, Paris, Burma, the court of King Arthur – but conform [...]
June 3rd, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
After leaving Furnace Creek we went south to look at what’s called the ‘Devil’s Golf Course’. It’s a section of the valley formed from mounds of encrusted salt. When it rains, salt on the surface dissolves and then as it recrystallises the wind blows it into spiky forms which encrust everything on the [...]
