Venturing Off the Strip

Limo Man and I drove off the strip to go exploring. We almost stayed at the Red Rock Resort so we decided to take a drive out to see what it was like. Good grief were we ever disappointed! Their website makes it appear that you can leave the resort and go hiking in Red Rock Canyon, so you'd think the resort was tucked into the red rock hills. Not so!
The Red Rock Resort is actually on the corner of Charleston Ave. which is an extremely busy thoroughfare and the 215 freeway. You'd have to take a hell of a hike to get to Red Rock Canyon. In fact it's about 4-6 miles up the road. Boy were we glad that we didn't stay there! But I understand from a co-worker that they have a killer international buffet...
Here we are on the way out to Red Rock Canyon...
The hills are all different shades of red.
Why this guy even painted his home to blend in to the hills. I'll bet he went out and hauled some red rock home and crushed it up and then added water and painted his house. Yeah, that's what he did....
Here's a cave that we found but you couldn't get any closer to explore.
Welcome to my kingdom!
More red rock.
This set of boulders didn't exactly look the most secure and Limo Man always has to climb big rocks when it's windy. Nover mind that my knees get all jelly like and I very calmly have to ask him to get down. He's such a daredevil.