Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Lone Pine, Death Valley, Vegas, Arizona




Recognize this landscape?


Me neither.


 
But if you are into Westerns you might know this guy from his movies that were shot here.
 







Talking about shooting...









Well, what can we do, all the Westerns we had seen so far were shot in Italy!
But still, what a beautiful scenery! The same is true for  Death Valley, our next stop.







Hundreds of miles of rocks and nothingness and then this:


Wilma going wild in Vegas

Water shortage? Rising energy prizes? Real estate crisis? No need to worry as long as there is Vegas, the seemingly endless source of more of whatsoever. f.e. jellybeans...




Totally glitter-world overwhelmed we want back to rocks and nothingness!! Arizona, here we come!

Passing the source behind all this lavishness in Vegas...

Hoover Dam

After even thinking about boycotting Arizona due to it’s innovative ideas of how to spot immigrants I was surprised by the socialist attitude we were welcomed with: asking for a grocery store some guy offered us his food stamps. Arizonian kindness or the way we look?

Another 80 miles without spotting any grocery store and we started to believe that people in Arizona simply don’t buy any groceries. They don’t need to, since there’s McDonalds and Taco Bell all over. But what about the food stamps? Do they trade them in for burgers? 

By the way: Wilma is doing great!