The last two days, we were hanging in Las Vegas. Vegas is everything that is right about our American way of life. And...everything that is wrong with our American way of life. Both in one compact 5 mile strip of 100 degree concrete, neon, glass and pavement.
24/7...The best entertainment. The best food. Lights. Gambling. Great people watching.
And then, the converse horrific counter images of people that have lost the way in every sense of the word lost. Gambling problems, substance abuse, the wearing of mullets and people wearing clothes 14 sizes too small.
Two days is all most sane people can stand...and we had a good two days. We ate well, gambled smartly and saw a show...and got the heck out!
We stayed at the KOA in Vegas, which is behind the Circus Circus Hotel Casino. Circus Circus is to a casino as Big Lots is to high end retail. The hotel attracts the kind of folks that don't hang out at the Venetian or Bellegio. The Circus Circus is a quick slide a lot further down the human evolutionary scale.
The Circus Circus KOA is basically a parking lot that attracts the kind of folks that cannot afford to stay at the luxurous, swank Circus Circus hotel...(Link to 100's of photos of sophisticated people). Sadly, this parking lot is where WE stayed. It was a simultaneously entertaining and unnerving experience. Upon arrival, we were witness to a very loud verbal fight between two gentlemen who were together and arguing about some other guy.
Lots of drama at the Circus Circus KOA. We kept waiting to hear the theme music for Cops! (Bad Boys, Bad Boys...) as this place is sketchy in CAPS.
This morning we took off for California for the last leg of the trip and our next stop...Sequoia National Park. Getting here we traveled through the most barren of places in the US...the Mojave desert. Miles of nothing but dirt, occasional brush and plenty of HOT. We were amazed at how beautiful and ugly 100s of miles of desert could look...but it somehow manages to pull it off.
Sequoia next!
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