After meeting up with the Denver Lions to watch Aston Villa beat Hull City 2-1 we jumped into our truck ( Kathleen and I ) and we drove off to Las Vegas . We were looking at a 12 hour drive which was gonna be straight into the mountains . It was crazy when we had our first climb as the speed limit is 70 MPH and we were having a tough time holding 45 MPH going up those steep roads . Remember this truck is filled with furniture and this was a beat up old U-Haul truck . I was pushing the RPM's i thought the engine would jump out of the hood at times it was so crazy ....
The downhill parts were kinda nerve wracking too as it was raining and the roads were a bit slippery , we tried to keep up the pace but at times it was better just to slow down as this speed limit is crazy :) Don't get me wrong the view was absolutely unreal !!!! This was a long drive ... we left around 8:30 AM and arrived around 9 PM with us travelling into another time zone losing an hour so it was a 13.5 hour drive ...
If you have read my blog before you will know i am not a fan of tourist trap type places and i am not interested in being around other tourists ... i am a man of the people and Las Vegas was the wrong place to experience any of that :( When we finally arrived i surprisingly found the parking lot for RV's / Trucks as we had booked ourselves a room at Planet Hollywood . I have never been to Vegas before so when i was planning my route i thought it would be interesting to check out but really its' not my kinda place . To be fair i just had driven 13.5 hours so i was a bit grumpy ...
Las Vegas is a plastic city with no soul . I don't think i saw a single person that i could point out and say that has to be someone that lives here . Nope there was nothing but tourists following each other around with big plastic cups totally wasted . One of the first things i saw was a guy with a megaphone yelling at people that they are all going to hell and a guy dressed as Chewbacca was next to him ???? ok .... so yeah i just felt like everyone there is following a dream somehow they all shared and i could smell the desperation in the air or was that the perfume from the cheap hooker i passed . Its a plastic world there with everyone pretending they are someone they really aren't and yeah i could rant for days about this but the plain simple truth is i know some people like this shit but its' not for me .
So when we checked in as stressful as that was we finally got our room and by this point i already decided i didn't want to leave the room ... fuck this place ! Our room was nice and big with tv in the bathroom and all kinda nice Will Smith memorabilia but i was stressed out hating this place kinda pissed i pushed myself further just to experience this crap but the truth is we had to get to Los Angeles the day after to catch our 3:30 PM flights home . Apparently the drive from Vegas to LA is about 5 hours so the earlier we leave the better ... Best thing i did in Vegas ? i went to bed at 9:30 PM :)
And no i didn't do any gambling LOL !
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