Day 5 - 19th Feb 2009

Last day in Vegas today. Had a MacDonalds breakfast in our hotel room, then went down to the casino in our hotel for one last go before leaving. Had a much more successful day than yesterday and managed to walk away $22 up from blackjack. Felt pleased that it had negated some of my losses from roulette the day before and seemed like a good note to be leaving Vegas on.

Caught the bus back to the airport where we were picking up our hire car. After answering what seemed like a million questions, we got a Toyota and we were off.

First stop was the welcome to Las Vegas sign for a photo shoot and then leaving Vegas behind us we headed off towards Arizona. First stop on our way was the Hoover Dam. It was very big and quite an impressive site. The water levels seemed to be very low at the moment, I guess there must be a bit of a water shortage...

As we left the Hoover dam we entered Arizona and actually went back a timezone (finally I've found a use for the world time function of my watch!). The landscape along the road as we drove became very dry and dusty. It's not really like anywhere back home, it's all very sandy coloured and mountainous. After about 6 hours on the road we arrived at our next destination Flagstaff. Found ourselves a nice motel, which has the added bonus of being quite cheap. Tomorrow we plan to go see the Grand Canyon and then head back west towards Nevada and Calafornia.