Valley of Fire!

Valley of Fire is a State Park only around 1 1/2 hours north of Las Vegas. It is only $10 a car and a easy drive and plenty of hikes for any fitness level. It was also where they filmed some of the Mars sequences in Total Recall. When we saw the fire red cliffs and power fine sand there we could completely see it. We also learned that Red Rock Canyon where we went on our first road trip was the site of where Kirk met his end in the Star Trek Generations film.( And yes we are movie geeks) We had planned a short morning trip during Willie's morning well check appointment. We turned towards Lake Mead when coming to a sign that said it was only 5 miles away. Lake Mead would put us closer to Tripp's house. We did indeed catch a glimpse of Lake Mead in 5 miles but the road then took us through over an hour scenic drive through the mountains and back to  I 15 AROUND 3PM, where we had started around 8am THAT MORNING. Nice drive though.

Add captionNext time we may stay here in the RV Gorgeous!

writing from others from long ago.

lots of stairs!

Hoover Dam, and Back to the Future Twice!

We walked across the bridge where you could get a good look at the Hoover Dam.

We had drove over the Dam in November just a couple of months after 911 when they first opened the road to car traffic. We drove over again today but then turned around and drove back because the road was closed on the Arizona side. The Dam not only traverses two states but also two time zones. The towers you see in the picture have clocks that show the time. It is an hour earlier on the Nevada side than the Arizona side so we went back to the future twice. By foot and car , no DeLorean  required.

Pat Tillman was the football player that gave up a pro football contract and his life to serve our Country after 911.

A foot in 2 states and 2 time zones.

Hoover Dam is very impressive.

We have been trying to get a picture of each of the States 

we traveled through this trip. This is much easier when walking than driving.                

Nevada time

Arizona time

Best of all our Willie!

Exploring Lake Mead, tunnels and of course The Baby!

Just to precious.

Papa Willie enjoying baby Willie

Tunnel on one of the trails at Lake Mead.

Lake Mead is Wow.

Freddie leading the way through the tunnels. such a gentleman.

Lake Mead is Huge!

We enjoyed cuddling our new addition. We also took advantage of days when he had check up appointments to explore the many sites around Las Vegas.

Meet Willie Walker IV

He is here! He is Beautiful and He is  so LOVED!

Daddy Love

To cute for words

Mommy and Son just after delivery. We all wish we looked this good.

Proud Grannie

The  Willie's  II, III, IV , My handsome men!

Time to go get my baby snuggle on!

Fixing the Fridge and waiting for Willie

The Fridge is finally working again. Yippee! Spent a week just laying around and taking care of some things on the RV. I came down with a cold and needed to stay away from Dana. Not Fair but at least the timing worked out.

My fridge laying down in the middle of my living room.

Taking off and cleaning out the old parts.

New refrigeration part. Yea the whole size of the unit.

On the roof and also on the outside of the RV. Lots of work but they Got it done.

Resting at home after picking us up and going to the park the day we arrived.

 

Tripp showing us Willie's room and some of his childhood treasures.

Proud Daddy to be.

Dana's sister painted this, it matches the quilt behind trip in the picture above. So talented!

Cheesecake Factory for lunch. First day we could get together for almost a week since I came down with that nasty cold.Now we are just waiting on Willie to arrive.

Death Valley Side Trip part 2

I was having trouble with the previous post so continuing pictures of our Death Valley trip.

Lots of People coming to see the Super Bloom!

We see more flowers locally by the roadside all the time.

This we don't see locally ever.

You can see how Death Valley usually looks most of the time.
  The small scattering of flowers in the foreground are Super rare.

Resort in the South end of Death Valley. A Super Bloom happens maybe
 once a decade. When you think about how rare it is to have flowers
 blooming  here you can understand the excitement over the Super Bloom.
 We arrived back at Oasis just around dark. 

Home Sweet Home Look Honey they left the lights o for us!

Death Valley Side Trip Part 1

 Dana's sister Samantha was coming in for the weekend so we thought we would give them some quality alone time and take the opportunity to ride over and see the Super Bloom a couple of hours away in Death Valley California. Yep Freddie's driving again.

Death Valley Overlook. Reminds me of a moonscape.

Freddie in Death Valley!

Beautiful but I can't comprehend how the early settlers survived traveling here.