OK, so we're in Las Vegas.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

We also cruised the strip yesterday. I haven't been here since 1976. It's like Times Square x 1000. Grotesque, like in a sci-fi dystopia.

Go watch the Pirates show at Treasure Island. If you time it right, you can also watch the water show at Bellagio.

[Mik]

I'm not much one for man-made spectacle.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

I'm not much one for man-made spectacle.

You’re a musical theater guy. That’s nothing but manmade spectacle…

Seriously, the Treasure Island Show is a Broadway show.

[Mik]

No. Cats is spectacle. The Drowsy Chaperone is a Broadway musical.

[Mik]

I looked. The pirate show is no more, replaced by an Avengers themed something or other.

https://www.free-city-guides.com/las-vegas/treasure-island/

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

I looked. The pirate show is no more, replaced by an Avengers themed something or other.

https://www.free-city-guides.com/las-vegas/treasure-island/

Really? How frigging stupid. That show was fantastic. Great music and singing, really incredible stunts and pyrotechnics, and hot girls dressed as sirens and Pirates. That’s a damn shame. And what the hell does The Avengers have to do with Treasure Island?

[LuFins Dad]

Shows you how long it’s been since I was there… Actually, it would have been 2012… And that trip was the one with the thunderstorms. I remember thinking I could cross this one street, the water was only 3 inches or so… Then I saw the police officer get bowled over…

[Renauda]

Mik, I highly recommend driving up to Valley of Fire State Park while you are there. It about 45 minutes out of Vegas. It is truly other worldly.

[Mik]

We'd be there tomorrow if it weren't for Hilary. We'll be back at Christmas.

The thing I really want to do is take the girls out to show them the dark sky desert at night. Nothing like it. That'll be close to 100 miles out.

[Copper]

It lives forever on YouTube

Link to video

[Renauda]

That’s right, you have that hurricane.

Seems to be something everywhere. We’re burning up here.

[Axtremus]

@Mik, beautiful picture!
I took a horseback riding tour in that area before, different time of year. The red color in your picture looks more vibrant than what I saw.

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

We also cruised the strip yesterday. I haven't been here since 1976. It's like Times Square x 1000. Grotesque, like in a sci-fi dystopia.

Agree. And you constantly smell pot. Every second you’re on it.

[bachophile]

Agree. And you constantly smell pot. Every second you’re on it.

that's my impression of new york

and yes vegas, its pretty ridiculous

last time there i stayed at the venetian. the fake venice with the gondolas and fake blue sky, it just seemed so weird and disney like.

but i guess if you are a provincial american and never strolled thru the calles of venice, or seen the grandeur of the ponte di rialto or the grande canale, its something to experience

[jon-nyc]

Yes NYC is like that now too. Not as bad, I mean it isn’t constant. But you can’t walk 15m without smelling it.

[LuFins Dad]

I was walking around Howard University this week and got a contact high…

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in OK, so we're in Las Vegas.:

can’t walk 15m

That European shit still hasn't worn off, I see.

[Copper]

I remember a couple blocks near 42nd street where there were dozens of drug sellers operating in the open - coke and smoke.

Outside those few blocks were 2-man teams of police on just about every corner. It's like they yielded these couple blocks to the dealers.

Of course this was 30 years ago. I have no idea how it looks now.

[bachophile]

Times squares looks also looks like Disneyland

But at least in New York it’s a change for the good

When I lived in New York 42 street was only porn theaters whores and drug dealers. Now, it’s 90% gawking tourists and brand name stores

The other 10% are New Yorkers who accidentally wandered into a tourist zone.

[Mik]

Well, Hilary was not a huge deal here. We got 1-3" of rain over three days in bands, never really heavy. It'll be good for Lake Mead but dwarfed by the record snowpack this past winter.