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Las Vegas: the town
Feb. 1st, 2005 11:59 pm
Some random impressions of Las Vegas.
The defining sensory impression of Las Vegas is cigarette smoke. People continually smoke in the casinos as they grimly play the slots, the smell gets ground into the carpets until each casino has it's own distinctive mixture of cigar, cigarette, and pipe fumes.
It's not just in the casinos either- we were on the freeway driving past downtown at a decent clip when I suddenly looked at My Lovely Wife and asked "Do you smell cigarette smoke?" She looked at me for a moment as if I was insane, and then her eyes widened: "I DO smell cigarette smoke!" Together we screamed: "The entire CITY smells of cigarettes!"
Vegas, at least in the Strip area is a bad place for someone with ADD- lots of neon, lots of video screens...I was surprised I had no accidents. Outside of the Strip and Freemont Street, Las Vegas looks like Los Angeles, with a helping of Midwestern squalor. I actually enjoyed driving through the residential section on our way to the Strip- it was like a palette cleanser.
My Lovely Wife was right when she said that Las Vegas has seen the American Dream and it consists of titties and prime rib. Anywhere within three miles of the strip advertisements for topless shows competed for billboard space with advertisements for "Prime Rib Specials!!!"- $6.95, $5.95...I suppose the ultimate Vegas attraction would be free prime rib served by-or on- a topless waitress.
Food in general was very middle America, beyond the concentration on-urrgh- prime rib (where the hell did they get the stuff that they could sell it so cheaply? and why didn't I ever see any cats or dogs in Vegas? Hmmm...), had exotic food items like cornon the cob and mashed potatoes We tended to go for the cheap and easily accessible buffets, meaning I ate way too much, and by Friday I was longing for a tofu stir fry.
I should probably actually talk about the fun stuff we did, lest it seem like our honeymoon was a trial and tribulation, which is far from the truth. We had lots of fun, and I should recommend the fun stuff.
Maybe tomorrow.
The defining sensory impression of Las Vegas is cigarette smoke. People continually smoke in the casinos as they grimly play the slots, the smell gets ground into the carpets until each casino has it's own distinctive mixture of cigar, cigarette, and pipe fumes.
It's not just in the casinos either- we were on the freeway driving past downtown at a decent clip when I suddenly looked at My Lovely Wife and asked "Do you smell cigarette smoke?" She looked at me for a moment as if I was insane, and then her eyes widened: "I DO smell cigarette smoke!" Together we screamed: "The entire CITY smells of cigarettes!"
Vegas, at least in the Strip area is a bad place for someone with ADD- lots of neon, lots of video screens...I was surprised I had no accidents. Outside of the Strip and Freemont Street, Las Vegas looks like Los Angeles, with a helping of Midwestern squalor. I actually enjoyed driving through the residential section on our way to the Strip- it was like a palette cleanser.
My Lovely Wife was right when she said that Las Vegas has seen the American Dream and it consists of titties and prime rib. Anywhere within three miles of the strip advertisements for topless shows competed for billboard space with advertisements for "Prime Rib Specials!!!"- $6.95, $5.95...I suppose the ultimate Vegas attraction would be free prime rib served by-or on- a topless waitress.
Food in general was very middle America, beyond the concentration on-urrgh- prime rib (where the hell did they get the stuff that they could sell it so cheaply? and why didn't I ever see any cats or dogs in Vegas? Hmmm...), had exotic food items like cornon the cob and mashed potatoes We tended to go for the cheap and easily accessible buffets, meaning I ate way too much, and by Friday I was longing for a tofu stir fry.
I should probably actually talk about the fun stuff we did, lest it seem like our honeymoon was a trial and tribulation, which is far from the truth. We had lots of fun, and I should recommend the fun stuff.
Maybe tomorrow.