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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - Harrah's Convenience Store, Laughlin NV

Catching Some Rays, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
Catching Some Rays, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011

The five Great Blue Heron pairs nesting on this cliff spend their day leisurely tending the nest and each other. What a privilege it was to be able to watch them for a day.

Night camp

Site 17 - Harrah's Convenience Store RV Parking, Laughlin NV

Hobnobbing with Brigham Young

The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.

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