Vegas was all and much more than I had expected.  the vastness and the drop dead silence standing alone (if you don't count the TONS of campers passing me by) was absolutely deafening!  I cried when around the bend in the road at the entrance to Death Valley there was a HUGE lake bed white with salt deposits.  The ride to Tahoe was absolutely amazing.  To go from such a hot climmate to a most amazingly radical  temperature change was hard to believe!

I was amazed, stounded and speechless to say the least.