I haven't ventured very far from the farm for quite awhile. It's funny how extended illness will put a wrench in your propensity for wandering, and my friends, I do so love a good meander!
Luckily for me, a foray into the realm that is the human spectacle is in my near future. That's right, I get to wade into the heart of the jungle that is the pinnacle of humanity's quest to embrace the dopamine drip, Las Vegas!
Now, I have been to Las Vegas before, during the height of Covid-19 even. I spent New Year's Eve 2020 in that town and holy wow was that ever an experience, and not for the normal reasons. Las Vegas during that time was operating at only 25% of capacity yet the normal volume of people were still in attendance.
I have never seen such lines. Or such bad manners.
It was happenchance happenstance that the fam and I were even there, as we were vacationing with our extended family in Phoenix at the time and a couple of our family members expressed a desire to do Vegas on New Years. I am moderately good at the internet so I told our family member that Vegas might be a little different due to all the Covid stuff, but she was determined to go, and me, well I am always up for an adventure, and I had never been to Las Vegas anyway.
And an adventure we did have.
So, with that bit of prefacing, I am very much looking forward to returning to the city of perpetual indulgence and seeing what it is like without all the restrictions.
Honestly though, I am going to be there to watch both of my children compete with 600 other children in the 2024 Western Regional Junior Clay Target Championships, so my days will be filled with watching round after round of skeet, trap, and sporting clays be blasted from the sky. That I am definitely looking forward too, as I always feel like I am in a British country manor narrative when I stroll along behind the shotgun carrying competitors on the sporting clay course. If we stopped for tea halfway through I would probably expire in elated joy!
Since it is Vegas though, we are staying in a casino, and our casino has the largest bowling alley I've ever heard of, like 68 lanes! And they have something called Cosmic bowling, which I must say intrigues me.
There's also a massive movie theater and several restaurants in the casino, so I am more than happy about that as well, and you know I will be investigating the food part of the journey very thoroughly.
But it's what is to happen after the competition that has me most delighted, we are going to stop off at Zion National Park on the way home and take it all in. I can't even wait! The kids and I are going to hike ALL the things!
So, in honor of my upcoming and long overdue foray back into the world of exploration, I thought I would post this little missive and inquire as to what your favorite things to do the spectacle that is Las Vegas? Or have you ever been to the neon jungle?
And as almost always, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's non-gambling iPhone, unless you count that one time it was kayaked across a certain lake in the author's pocket.
