This section includes Las Vegas, the Grand
Canyon, Hoover Dam,
the actual, transplanted London Bridge, and New Orleans.
Click on any picture to enlarge it.
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This is our greeting
in Las Vegas. Not shown are the hundreds of slot machines in the
airport's public waiting area. Gambling machines were everywhere. |
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Jerrold Patz & Naimah posed in front
of the 18-seat airplane that took us over Las Vegas and into the Grand
Canyon. The small white tags we are wearing are our "boarding passes".
"Jerrold Patz" |
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This is an aerial view
of the Stratosphere Hotel, the tallest building in Las Vegas and Nevada.
This hotel is at the north end of the famous "Strip" of hotels. |
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This is an aerial view of Las Vegas.
Our hotel, the Luxor, the dark pyramid in the upper left corner. This
picture was taken from a small airplane on our way to the Grand Canyon. |
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The Las Vegas desert
area. What it was before the city was built on the meadows ("las vegas"). |
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This is our hotel, the Luxor Las Vegas, as seen from the back. The hotel is built in the shape
of a pyramid and has "inclinators", elevators that move sideways. You can
compare this to the real pyramids of
Egypt. |
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This is on the inside
of our hotel,
the Luxor Las Vegas. It had dozens of murals and carvings. |
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This is the Sphinx at the front of the Luxor. The beam
of light at the top is the beacon from the top of the pyramid. It is the
brightest light on earth. You can compare this to the real
Sphinx of Egypt. |
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This is Naimah
sitting in our hotel room. All of the pyramid rooms have one wall that is at
a 48° slope from the side of the pyramid.
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There are many 'theme' hotels in Las Vegas. This is a
33% Eiffel Tower in front of Paris Las Vegas.
Compare this to the real Eiffel
Tower. |
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Jerrold Patz in front
of the Las Vegas
version of the Arc de Triomphe.
"Jerrold Patz" |
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Here is a Statue of Liberty in front of the New York
NY Las Vegas Hotel. Compare this to the
original
in New York or the model
statue in Paris. |
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Part of the facade of
the New York, NY hotel in Las Vegas. The taller building is a model of the
Empire State Building. |
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Chinese New Year display inside the Bellagio Hotel,
Las Vegas. |
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Excalibur Hotel at
night. |
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Paris Las Vegas Hotel, day and night. |
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This is our ticket to
a Las Vegas nightclub show. |
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A view of the Grand Canyon. The camera cannot capture
the colors and depth of the scenery. |
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Another view of the
Grand Canyon from the South Rim. |
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Picture of us in front of one of the cliffs into the
Grand Canyon. Jerrold Patz &
Naimah Zakaria at the Grand Canyon
"Jerrold Patz" |
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We rented a car and
visited the Hoover Dam, about 40 minutes east of Las Vegas. |
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An interesting panorama of the Dam taken from the
access road from Arizona. We then drove over the Dam into Nevada. |
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Naimah sitting on a
wall overlooking the Hoover Dam. Lake Mead is the resulting body of water
from the dam. |
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I am standing on the
London Bridge, however it is
not in
London. It is in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA. It was disassembled and
moved to Arizona in 1971.
Jerrold Patz on the London Bridge
"Jerrold Patz" |
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The full span of the
London Bridge. This waterway was built as an extension from Lake Havasu
specifically to run under the re-located bridge. |
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