About 45 miles away from Vegas, we were surprised to see the brightest thing (besides the sun) off the highway. It's the
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, a concentrated solar thermal plant, It uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate the solar energy onto water boilers. It was just shockingly bright, it made me glad it isn't on during the night (haha).
Looking back on the installation with the sun in the picture.
We stopped at an overlook so we could see Lake Mead. The water almost looks almost like a mirage among all the desert and mountains.
It was very colorful driving through the desert at this time of year, all of a sudden an entire hillside would be Very Yellow.
Did you see any cool wildflowers? The ones around here are prolific and I am sad we are not doing an April road trip to SoCal so we can see them. I know it would have been too much for you this year with all the other travel.
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