Traveling with the Munschs: Valley of Fire Pictures

Our next stop after California was a night stop over in the Valley of Fire state park in Nevada. We drove through Las Vegas and we all got to see some of the interesting casinos quickly as we went by on the interstate. The heat was insane and we had to turn the air off for a few stretches to let the car cool down. From there it wasn't much further to the park. It was so hot I've never been in anything like it. The park was very interesting and the campsites where huge and not many people crazy enough to camp (maybe 6 other campers there with us) so a nice change from San Clemente. It was just too bad we couldn't leave the trailer for long without melting. We are not built for the heat. We were close to Lake Mead so we sought out the nearest swimming hole we could find. I didn't realize until we got there why I received the weird look from the Ranger when I inquired about swimming nearby, with an answer Hmm, ahh, probably Echo bay would be your best bet it's about 12 miles into the Lake Mead National Recreation area. When we got there it was a ghost resort, I bet it was hopping in it's time but now it was dead and eerie. I thought we were done when we only found a boat ramp and nothing that looked like a beach or swimming hole but then we saw a couple of ladies in swimsuits heading to the other side away from the boat ramp so we hopped out and went down to the water. It looked like it would be great with wavy coast line and a group of islands but we quickly discovered that it was all muddy and eroding. We meet up with the ladies and discovered they didn't know what they were doing either. But we found a semi solid piece of land and got into the water and where we had a blast and most importantly got cooled off.