WENT TO THE WEST. Saw/experienced the following:

• In N Out Burger... Cheeseburger with nothing, strawberry shake, fries. Good.
• Boulder City... lodging for the workers who created the...
• Hoover Dam... big thing in the desert that created...
• Lake Mead... big reservoir in the desert. Also in the desert...
• Bikini Photo Shoot... at Rogers Spring. Desert sun, creepy photogrpaher... "Yeah, you're a babe." Almost as American as the...
• Valley of Fire... big red rocks. Similar to big rocks seen at...
• Virgin River Gorge... named Virgin River because "it runs just fast enough" and leads us to...
• Fredonia, AZ... High Plains Drifter is an awesome film. In the background we could see...
• Pipe Spring National Monument... and the Vermillion Cliffs. We bought local eggs from the Vermillion Cliffs Poultry farm for breakfast at...
• Jacob Lake Campground... where we met the McClure family. Off on a year-long round-the-world trip with their two daughters. We ate marshmallows and drove through...
• The Basin on the Kaibab Plateau in the Kaibab National Forest... the coolest meadow I have ever seen. Then we headed to...
• The North Rim of the Grand Canyon... That's big. We walked and camped, then headed out and eventually obtained...
• Homade pies... The Thunderbird Restaurant. Ho-made? Really? Not Homemade?...
• The Tunnel into Zion National Park... 1.25 miles, quite a thing. Then we parked and took the shuttle to...
• Angel's Landing... where we huffed and puffed until I got scared of the steep cliffs and Kate agreed to descend. She's fearless. Checked in at the campground and spoke to...
• Chuck and Tonie... there are work campers. Travelling the country, working to pay bills. Getting 12 miles to the gallon in their 80 foot rig. Hunger approached. We fended it off by...
• Eating Elk meatloaf and pizza... delicious and nutritious. Gave us the poise we needed upon our return to...
• Las Vegas Public Library... where the bums gamble online and some stranger offers everyone "free bananas". This whets our appetite and we proceed to...
• The Bellagio Buffet... Easily the nicest buffet I've ever stuffed myself at. People were stealing cookies. We decided to jet before the fuzz started harassing us, so we...
• Lost everything in one pull on the slot machine...
  .  It didn't hurt too bad because "everything" was only $0.25 at that point, but still...
• Bittersweet partings... I said goodbye to my wife for the second long-duration period in our relationship. A fun weekend, good times. Still, hard to do.