| Just a very attractive
cloud formation. It disappeared as we headed south. We are taking our
friends back to Phoenix from Boise. Just about 1000 miles over three days. |  |
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The first leg was to more friends in Clinton UT, just north of Salt Lake
City. The middle part of the US has long stretches of road passing through
nothing - with frequent roadworks and endless cones. |
| Very close to Clinton is
Hill Air Force base which is home to the railway transportation part of the
Army. This is a better shot than I got last time we passed this way. |  |
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The houses out here are huge (5000+ sq ft) You could almost fit our camper
in their closets. But we were treated very hospitably. Alas we could only
stop overnight. |
| Onward past the rocks of
the Wasatch mountains glowing red in the early sunshine. We headed south
almost 400 miles down I15 towards Las Vegas. |  |
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There is essentially nowhere between the Salt Lake corridor and Las Vegas.
There is a short section of very attractive road which is actually in
Arizona between Utah and Nevada. |
| The road twists and turns
through the mountain pass. It is very difficult for Arizona to maintain this
road since to reach it from the rest of Arizona you have to travel through
100 miles of Nevada. |  |
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We only stopped overnight on the outskirts of Las Vegas and did not go into
the centre. We will be visiting it again in a few weeks. It is fairly
desolate from there to Phoenix. |
| There are 40 acre lots
for sale out here but goodness knows what you would do with it. I can't see
what it could support. |  |
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Apart from saguaro cactus - which only grow at certain elevations and take
years before they develop arms. |
| Vegas is at 2-4000ft and
Phoenix is much lower, only about 1000ft. The road twists and turns as we
slowly descend over a couple of hundred miles. |  |
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Not far to go now but still far enough. I've had my fill of roads like this
PS When you get to the horizon, the next bit looks just the same. The Romans
would have been at home here. |
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