Archive for February, 2007

2007

27

Feb

The Number 23

By Gaz under Movies, Ramblings

As night descended quickly during our journey from Las Vegas to San Diego on Friday, we stopped for the night at Elsinor, about 70 miles shy of our destination. It was February 23rd, release date of Jim Carrey’s new movie, The Number 23, which I had been looking forward to ever since I saw [...]

2007

27

Feb

Free Masonry in Sedona

By Gaz under Ramblings, Travel

On the road from Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona last week, there was a large blue sign bearing the Free Mason’s logo, and the inscription ‘Free And Accepted Masons’. Curiously, there was a documentary about the history of Free Masonry and the Illuminati on television that evening, which showed how the design of the [...]

2007

24

Feb

Las Vegas

By Gaz under Travel

Even with our stop to look at Hoover Dam, it took us less than 2 hours reach SR93 and Tropicana Blvd in Vegas from Kingman and then, thanks to traffic, another 40 minutes to ride 3 miles or so along Tropicana to reach our hotel on the West side of Las Vegas Blvd. I [...]

2007

24

Feb

Hoover Dam

By Gaz under Travel

Driving over Hoover Dam yesterday on the way to Las Vegas, I wanted to take a picture from a different perspective. After all, you can find all the conventional pictures you want of the dam elsewhere on the interweb. What you see here is the site of one end of the future [...]

2007

22

Feb

Golden Valley

By Gaz under Ramblings

We arrived in Kingman yesterday early enough to take a look at some land for sale in the Golden Valley development. The views from anywhere in the valley are nothing short of amazing, especially when the sun is setting over the distant rock formations, and the land really does take on a golden hue [...]

2007

22

Feb

Signs and Portents

By Gaz under Ramblings

To avoid getting stranded in the desert on a long stretch between garages, we’ve been trying to keep our fuel tanks above half full — stopping for a refill at the first garage we pass after we notice that the we’ve used up half a tank. When I filled my bike up with fuel [...]