August 26, 2009
Sure, you can find plenty of places to take your hard-playing, high-flying friends and family when they visit Sin City. But what do you do when your sweet, elderly relatives come to stay? Strip clubs and high stakes poker probably won’t cut it. Fortunately, Vegas offers plenty of attractions appropriate for visiting with mom. Continue reading »
2 Comments »
Rate this post: 
(38 votes, average: 4.95 out of 5)
(38 votes, average: 4.95 out of 5)
Loading ...
Las Vegas may be a desert town, but we do have our share of fun and challenging water sports just a few miles east of the city. Here, where the Colorado River funnels between Nevada and Arizona, city kayakers make their escape. Join me on a relaxing overnight trip from Hoover Dam to Willow Beach. 
Hands down, the biggest off-Strip attraction in the Las Vegas area is Hoover Dam. Now, as the grand dam approaches its centennial, a companion marvel is joining it in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. While not as huge as the dam, the new Colorado River Bridge is every bit as impressive a feat of engineering. For the last couple of years, I’ve been driving down U.S. Highway 93 every month or so to watch the progress. As work continues, watching gets ever more fascinating. 
Last Saturday morning, I drove down to Boulder City to attend the 48th Annual 31ers Reunion. 31ers, for those not in the know, are people who came to southern Nevada in 1931. That was the year word went out that, after years in the planning stages, construction on the huge new dam across the Colorado River would finally begin. 
Hoover Dam will be seventy years old next year. This means that if it were on the Strip, it would have been blown down at least a decade ago. But if age isn't beauty on Las Vegas Boulevard, it is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado. Hoover Dam may not be the newest, biggest, or most expensive of its kind, but a million visitors a year don't seem to care if it doesn't merit any of those superlatives. 
