Arriving at Bryce

Day 1 – May 5 – 4 p.m. Utah Time Roughly 4.5 hour after leaving Vegas, Maris and I arrived at Bryce Canyon Lodge, where a clock labeled “Utah Time” surprised us.  We didn’t realize that Vegas was on Pacific time and that we had changed to Mountain Time as we left Nevada–a common error, [...]

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Leaving Las Vegas

  Day 1:  May 5 – Morning Although I took many wonderful, long driving vacations with my family as a child, my first trip to the desert (that I was old enough to remember) did not occur until March 1997, when I was 30 years old.  Seeing the desert wasn’t the point of the trip.  I was to deliver a [...]

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Las Vegas

Erev Vacation:  May 4, 2010:  Welcome to Hell Maris and I worked a full day on Tuesday, grabbed cabs to Midway at 5 p.m., landed in Vegas around 10, and were greeted at the airport by:   We slept there overnight but had no plans to stay any longer than necessary.  Which was a good [...]

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