Saturday, February 25, 2017

Las Vegas, just a stop on the way




Saturday, February 25

We have spent the last couple of days in the Boulder City area, where we will stay for a few days longer to hike. It is a magnificent landscape with a lot of hiking opportunities.
Las Vegas seems so far away here, both distance-wise and time-wise, but only three days ago we spent a night right close to the ‘strip’. For both of us Las Vegas has never held any attraction, but as I mentioned earlier it was the most convenient (and, as it turned out, cheap) location to get to Red Rock Canyon. Thus we booked a room at a ‘Travelodge’ motel just on the north end of the strip, with a full view of the Trump building, ‘Circus, Circus’ lights blinking merrily just outside our window. 

We decided that now that we were here we should at least have a look at this place that breathes opulence and money, where electricity and water are used as if there was no tomorrow. We walked down the strip as far as we could stand it, dazed by light and sound and people, and were happy when we were back in our motel.

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