{"id":13665,"date":"2025-02-05T22:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/?p=13665"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:49:51","slug":"a-few-days-out-west-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/?p=13665","title":{"rendered":"A Few Days Out West Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not Far from Las Vegas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since the 1980’s I’ve been a fairly regular visitor to the Consumer Electronics Show<\/strong> (CES) first as an exhibitor and more recently as an industry observer. The show is held in January of each year and as a lifelong geek I enjoy making my way through the many aisles of the convention center to see, touch and talk about some of the upcoming techie gizmos that are or will soon be making their way to the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So for these 40+ years CES has kept me accustomed to traveling back and forth to Las Vegas. Typically I will spend a few days at the show with the other 150,000 attendees, 4000 exhibitors traipsing through miles of aisles. Afterward two days I’m ready for a break from all of the people and city traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luckily there are places close by that I can visit to relax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of these places is a short 25 mile drive to Desert National Wildlife Refuge <\/strong>– the largest such refuge outside of Alaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I didn’t have an AWD vehicle, I stuck to the lower areas of the park to photograph the birds.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Another of my favorite places to visit is Death Valley National Park. Death Valley is about a two hour drive and sits on the Nevada-California border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Death Valley is the nation’s largest national park in the lower 48 states.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Zabriskie overlooks the main valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Badwater is lowest point in USA about 280 ft below sea level<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Desert NWR and Death Valley are two of the places that I frequently visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several other places that I have visited in previous trips to Las Vegas – namely Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park. Each is a few additional hours from Vegas but but January weather in these mountainous areas is too unpredictable. I’ll visit those parks during more temperate months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Las Vegas remains an exciting place to visit with its amazing architecture, fabulous restaurants, exciting recreation and tempting casino gaming. Keep in mind that there are other close by places that may interest unsuspecting visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These two stickers that show that we’ve recently visited these places and are available at our companion site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The stickers are available at StickItToYourCar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arnie Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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