Hello Again!

Monkeying around at the San Diego Zoo.

A snake having dinner.

Tina and Tristan standing in front of a Saguaro cactus outside Quartzsite Arizona.

As skilled as I may be at riding a bike, I can't swim a stroke, it is only with large amounts of pool noodles that I managed to not drown. We were in the outdoor pool at my Grannie's place in Yuma, Arizona.

The business end of a Sherman tank at Yuma Proving Grounds. This one seen action in World War II as well as Korea and it has the bullet dents to prove it.

We went to the sand dunes by Yuma, and I was offered a ride in a sandrail, which I accepted of course. It was quite a wild ride, I had sand all over me at the end.

The Ocean Pier in San Diego, we walked to the end of it.

The beach in San Diego.

Shamu the whale, at Sea World.

Orphan Mine shaft at the Grand Canyon, in 1951 uranium was discovered in the mine, this is as close to the mine as you can get now as the whole area around the shaft is contaminated with radioactive waste. In the photo you can see the mine shaft and a lower frame work with cables going into the shaft.

The upper part of the mine.

Route 66 Motel, with the Roadkill Cafe in the background. We travelled down about 100 miles of old Route 66 between Williams, Arizona and Kingman, Arizona.

The Grand Canyon

Highway 89 south of Prescott, Arizona, is a very fun, senic highway to drive as you can see. The van isn't too sporty though, we needed Tina's car for this stretch of highway. :)

World's biggest TV screen over Fremont Street in Las Vegas, we went there to watch the graphics, they are on for about 10 mins every hour.

Words of wisdom from Caesar's Palace Casino.

A look down the Strip from our casino.

A Ford Group "B" rally car, they were banned from competition for being too dangerous. This particular one has 650HP, all wheel drive and goes from a standstill to 60mph in 2.1 seconds. We stayed at the Imperial Palace Casino and they have a impressive auto collection.

Looking over the edge down the Hoover Dam. Those are cars down there on the parking area by the water.

9133Kms, that is how far we travelled on our vacation. I really didn't want to come home when we were all done, it's cold here now. We did have some really nice weather for the vacation though, and the roads were good going there and back. Tina and I are now looking for a new apartment before the baby comes, we aren't allowed to stay here with kids and it's getting a little cramped in here now with all our stuff. Time to move up to something a little bigger. Anyway, thanks for looking, ride safe and have fun.