Southwest Trip Part 3: Las Vegas

Distance: 26 miles
ETA: 26 minutes
Seeing a black-out in Las Vegas: Priceless.

From Hoover Dam (around Boulder City) we headed to Vegas... because when you're this close to Vegas, you gotta go. We ended up staying a couple days here and had a nice overall tour of the Vegas Strip. We were exhausted from walking miles and miles in the summer heat. I think it was still around 90 degrees at night. We had an unforgetable experience there the first night. A crazy lightning storm rolled in out of nowhere and while we were getting our room at the Stardust, the storm caused a blackout for a few seconds. It was so weird to see the Casino completely dark and everyone fell silent in the hotel. I looked outside the entrance door window and saw that the lights of the strip itself were dark too. Then all the power came back up after a few seconds. Minutes later, it happened again... but this time the Stardust remained dark. It seemed like this time that only the Stardust was affected. Since darkness and crime go hand in hand, we decided to jump into our rental car (a Mazda 3) to check out the lights of the strip. It was raining hard by now, so the lights looked really beautiful mirrored by the water on the wet road. When we arrived back at the Hotel, there were a few police cars in the parking lot and we saw a few guys get arrested. Like I said, darkness and crime go hand in hand. Sorry, I didn't take any photos of the rain and lights... I was driving. But I did take some typical tourist photos of Vegas. So here ya go: