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Originally Posted by aigel
Places I'd like to visit this trip:
- Death Valley
- Hover Dam
- Grand Canyon (South Rim)
- Santa Fe
- Vegas (just for one round of buffets and an evening at a show).
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Death Valley is super in the winter time. I rode my bike up to Mammoth Lakes via Death Valley a few years ago.
Hoover Dam ain't worth the miserable traffic jam you will ALWAYS sit in to get there and get back. Even the bypass they built hasn't helped on the AZ-bound route because the traffic still backs up before Boulder City. Just did that one last Sat. I've ridden my bike across Hoover Dam into AZ and then turned around and taken the Laughlin route because traffic was so bad. Hate the Dam.
North Rim is way, way better, but closed now. Best to hit it the day it opens again and there will be no crowds at all.
Went to Santa Fe again last Xmas. Very nice, chilly, but not worth more than a day.
I've had it with Vegas. I'll only ever go back there for Rush concerts. Driving there is pure hell all the time.