I forgot another thing I like about Las Vegas. If you are driving and arriving from the north at night. You'll notice that the sky is considerably lighter where Vegas is, but you're surrounded by mountains, so all you see is dark all around you as you drive through twists and turns. Then all of a sudden you round a bend and you're treated to a spectacularly gigantic bowl of sparkling gold. It looks for all the world like a lake of lights.
If you're arriving from the south, in the air, at night. It's a bit of a similar experience. The plain will bank to the left and this blank darkness that you realize is the side of a mountain gives way to the view of a big giant sparkling jewel on the ground. All those lights concentrated in that one area in the midst of all that dark desert.
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Date: 2008-10-12 05:34 am (UTC)If you're arriving from the south, in the air, at night. It's a bit of a similar experience. The plain will bank to the left and this blank darkness that you realize is the side of a mountain gives way to the view of a big giant sparkling jewel on the ground. All those lights concentrated in that one area in the midst of all that dark desert.
I feel so nostalgic. I want to go home.