Lots of tall young men in town for a couple of weeks. Las Vegas is hosting the NBA Summer League. This is the time when this year's crop of NBA rookies get to strut their stuff ... or not! We saw three games. Kings vs The Raptors, Timberwolves vs the Lakers, and Golden State vs the Cavaliers. The NBA's number 2 draft pick D'Angelo Russell for The Lakers went up against the NBA's number 1 draft pick Karl-Anthony Towns for the Timberwolves. Of course one is a guard and one is a forward so they didn't really have that much to do with each other. Las Vegas is like home court advantage for the LA Lakes.so the Thomas and Mack Arena was full for that game. The Timberwolves won 81 to 68.
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| Fascinated by fancy kicks! |
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| Towns #32 |
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| Russell #1 |
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| Free throw |
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| Full house at Thomas and Mack |
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| UNLV Rebel Cheerleaders |
Saturday was a road trip. We headed to what Dan called the Northeast Kingdom of Nevada. We headed 180 miles north and east of Las Vegas to Pioche. Along the way we stopped in at four of Nevada's 23 State Parks. We have a State Park Passport booklet which we are trying to get stamped at at least 15 different parks this year. If you get 15 stamps you can earn an annual pass to all of Nevada's state parks. (7 done so far after this trip.) The title of each park below is a link the park's website.
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| Real Trees! |
This juvenile Cooper's Hawk had just fledged. He was doing a lot of hopping and short flights!
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| Cooper's Hawk |
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| Old water tower built in the 1930's. |
The view from above. Some call this Nevada's Little Grand Canyon.
Spring Valley State Park
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| Water! |
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| More water! |
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| Lunch break. |
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| Blue-green algae : ( |
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| This small lake is created by an earthen dam. |
Echo Canyon State Park
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| Bridge to nowhere. |
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| Another of man-made body of water. |
We had to backtrack to the Kershaw Ryan park on our way home . We hadn't gotten our Passport stamped there because the gate wasn't manned. But the ranger at Cathedral Gorge told us where to find a stamp we could use. This mule deer was grabbing a little dinner in an irrigated field on our return trip.
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| Mule deer. |
We had a great trip. The next post will be about all we saw in Pioche. Dan is pretty sure he saw a GHOST!.
It's all about the Journey!
Nancy and Dan
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