I avoid going anywhere on any holiday weekend. Yesterday, I had two real
estate inspections to do in Boulder City, Nevada. I thought it would be
nice to take the road down along Lake Mead back to Las Vegas, not having
gone that way for many years, and with the lake being low to see it at its
lowest in places that were familiar to me from my childhood.

Just out of Boulder City on the hill going down, traffic came to a crawl.
Like that for about three miles, with the construction slowdowns due to the
new bridge at the dam. I finally got down to the state road that takes you
along the lake, and we were turned around at the entry station because there
was a nasty accident just inside that entry plaza, from the looks of it
involving a couple of travel trailers.

So, an hour shot in the head just to get turned around.

On some busy holiday weekends, there can be 300,000 people in Lake Mead
Park. I don't want to go anywhere that bad. It starts at the launch ramp
and gets worse from there. I happen to know that there are VERY limited
toilet facilities all around the lake, also, so keep your mouth closed when
swimming.

Driving back here today from Vegas to St. George, Utah, not one single
wreck, but going down a couple of weeks ago, a very lare bulgemobile style
travel trailer was strewn for about half a mile. Ah, those weekend
warriors. I stay at home.

Steve