Off to Vegas!

Sandy has a week off, so we decided to go to the adult Disneyland.  We have a time share there and just like to chill, see a few shows, and loose just a few bucks.  

We made it across the Mojave Desert!  Not much to report on that trip.  I do want to see the Borax mine some day, we passed right by it.  The airplane grave yard looked interesting at the Mojave airport and the F15's were flying at Edwards AFB.  

In the Primm Valley, NV, we noticed several large towers being built out in the desert. Of course I wanted to know what's going on, and nobody back at the resort knew what I was talking about.  Thank you Google!  It is the Hidden Hills Solar Electric Generating System.  The tall towers will be solar energy collectors, with thousands of mirrors on the ground, concentrating the suns rays at the towers and producing steam to drive turbine generators.  They are busy out there in the middle of nowhere, to be complete in 2015, and supply power to CA and NV.