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| - OK, I took my little brother to Vegas for his 21st birthday. Naturally, we did the stuff in between, the buffet, the shows, countless bars and drunken taxi rides back to the room, where we then get escorted out of our hotel room and the whole cycle continues....
But in between, my brother wanted to do some things that were away and off the Vegas strip, something different that would make it more interesting when people asked what did you do on your 21st birthday in Vegas?
We found our answer on the Internet, we were a small five person group, non of us had any ATV riding experience and one of the guys asked if we ever had done this before, we had planned to just go out, rent the ATV for a couple of hours and screw around, fortunately the guy did pick up on how green we were and said he could take us out on a riding tour. It was 50 dollars more then we had initially budgeted and it was 2 hours less, still at $250 per person it was a expensive endeavor, but I figured it was a one time deal and I sure at the tables one of the guys would lose that much in the same amount of time, at least this way were were getting outside and doing something different. I am glad we did this, first of all we wouldn't have been able to find the place, the actual business location and the trail was a short drive away... they took us to it... They also gave us lessons, taught some of us how to ride a manual ATV and took us on a proving training grounds to prepare us. 30 minutes later, they thought we were prepared and decided we would go and do the real thing. They trail was nuts! There was anything you could imagine, narrow chicanes, long dusty straight, moguls, drops, cliff sides and steep hill climbs and descents. I took some of the most amazing shots ever on this trip, it was absolutely stunning scenery. We even got to explore and check out some of the abandoned mines and the tour guides supplied us with some water and took pictures of us riding with our camera. One other reason I'm glad we had guides with us was that we were out in the middle of the day in 107+ degree F weather, and one of the people in our group was getting pretty bad heat exhaustion, and got us a short cut back to the car. They helped find him some shelter to cool down and eventually we decided to move out, still despite that little heat thing, it was a fantastic outing. I was told that if you go in the mornings the heat is not nearly an issue, we just decided to show up middle of the day in the worst possible conditions... :) Still it makes for a good cocktail story...
The lady that runs the inside of the office can be a little rude, but don't let that put you off, the people that run the trails and tours for this company is freakin awesome!!! Oh and I want an ATV now....
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