Fri, 19 Jun 2009
Summer Vacation!
Today I am returning to Austin after a trip to the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park and Las Vegas. Look for articles about the national parks later. Las Vegas landscaping/plants were not so great except the Bellagio, where it's clear the landscape designers went to great lengths to create an authentic looking Italian landscape complete with Italian stone pines and painstakingly pruned square hedges everywhere. It was impressive and the stone pines offered some much needed shade on the strip. I had planned on a visit to spring preserve, a nature center/botanical garden 3 mi west of downtown Vegas, but I decided to spend more time with my good friends who met me in Vegas instead. Maybe next time. I did not win anything gambling. It was downright depressing. But every American should see Vegas once, it's a bizzare, impressive and exciting place. I walked almost everywhere, and I am pooped.
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