Complete Las Vegas Strip

Decided to drive the entire  Las Vegas Strip from Las Vegas Strip from the M hotel & casino to Fremont Street.using my GoPro HD HERO2: Motorsports Edition.

Motivating Cats

Okay, I'm driving my daughter to school and this enormously fat, grey cat bounds across the street, in front of my bumper and then to the sidewalk on the other side. Of course I immediately stop and the cat is fine. But when I start up again the cat starts running beside me. If I slow down the cat slows down; If I speed up the cat speeds up ... So, I stop and the cat stops - just sitting there.

I need to be clear, the cat is on the sidewalk - at least two meters to the side and about four meters in front of my car. I am in no way chasing the cat. But I gotta get my kid to school - so I'm like screw it and speed the car up to about 15 mph and the cat takes off in front. And I figure the cat needs exercise and I need to get to get going; so it's kind of win / win right?

We (the cat and I) get to an intersection and I think the cat is going to take a hard right and go up the other street - nope - the cat crosses the street and continues running. ... block and block after block. For about 3/4 of a mile.

Let me stress that I am NOT chasing the cat .. I was kind of motivating the cat .. sorta .. did I mention the cat was really fat. So slowly the cat is losing ground to the car until finally it just stops - okay collapses on the sidewalk.

I'm not telling you this as some sort of confession. I don't feel guilty (okay I feel a little guilty and a bit shameful) .. I am telling you this because if for some reason in the middle of the night, if I am attacked by some mysterious creature and all the authorities find of me is bloody scraps .. y'all know who the real culprit is ..

Nevada Day

October 31st is Nevada Day - Halloween to everyone else. I'm a third generation Nevadan on both sides - my parents met at Las Vegas High School. So, in honor of Nevada Day .. I present our state song ..



Alternate Nevada Songs

I See You Larry

I see you Larry

It's a joke I like to pull on the next guest staying in my hotel room. I write this on the mirror right after I've taken a shower. I know the chances the next guest will be named Larry are slim, but on the off chance it is - Larry will step out of the shower and see a disturbing message waiting for him.

This was taken at the Ramada Inn in Tonopah, Nevada.

Fisheye Pictures for Today

Just some random fisheye lens pictures I took over the last month.

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Sierra Nevada Mountains

Winding road on the Nevada side

Some guy who was fishing here got mad at me.

I love winding roads. Too bad I only have a Civic to enjoy them.

Love the clouds that day.

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I used a Lomography Fisheye 35mm Camera. It's a cheap, fun little camera. I take it everywhere.

Road Trip - Marine Mountain Warfare Training

On my last road trip, as I head through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I passed the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center. Luckily I was video taping using my little Veho Micro DV Camcorder. So, I decided to put the video on YouTube.

Nothing earth shattering here. Just a road trip through the mountains with a whole bunch of Marines around. The music is Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms



Military link - MWTC

Lomography Fishy Camera

I have a Canon EOS Rebel T2i DSLR and I love it. It's a semi-pro camera. Captures at18mp and 1080i video. I couldn't be more happy with a camera.

But there are times when I have to go back to film. There's just something about the chemical reaction of photons hitting the silver halide salts, that gives you a whole different picture than you would have gotten using a digital camera.

I have an Olympus OM-1, but usually when I go on a road trip or out shooting for the day I just throw in one of my Lomography camera. One of my favorite is the Lomography Fisheye 35mm Camera It's easy to load and the lens is fixed - and plastic. Fisheye gives a whole new perspective (literally) of the world. Here are some pictures I took with my Fisheye.

Cedar Breaks, Utah

Ethel M - Cactus Garden, Las Vegas, Nevada

Ethel M - Cactus Garden, Las Vegas, Nevada

Cedar City, Utah

If you're interested in owning this little gem, you can purchase it at Amazon.

Sierra Mountain Road Trip

My life is under construction for the present time. Here are some random pictures from the road trip I took. There are quite a few interesting stories. Being stalked by Marines training in the mountains was one interesting thing that happened.

Only saw one single wild horse. Used to see bands of wild horses and burrows on my way to UNR from Las Vegas. They're all gone now - sold as meat. You can thank our Former Republican Governor, Jim Gibbons, who sold off Nevada's natural treasure for a few bucks in his pocket.

This was the same ass-hat who beat up a cocktail waitress and threw his wife out of the governor's mansion because he had a new girlfriend. Our new governor, Brian Sandoval, also a Republican, seems to be much more friendly to Nevada's wildlife. 

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Death Valley Nut Company

Only one lone wild horse

It was like something out of a scifi movie

There was so much snow still on the mountains

Like something you would see in the alps, not California

Scrub Land

Right about now a fisherman is trying to tell me that taking photos is illegal

Three Brothers

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Clown Motel - The Movie

I just got home from the road trip to my Aunt and Uncle's. I thought before I crash for the night, I would share the single scariest thing I saw on my trip through the high desert.

The Clown Motel on the edge of Tonopah Nevada. 

Living in Las Vegas, I have a few clown friends and I mean absolutely no offense. They are the funny, amusing, talented clowns. They bring happiness to the lives of children and those young at heart. Love those kind of clowns. I'm talking about the horror movie clowns .. the ones Stephen King writes about.

The Clown Motel is just like those motels you see in the movies. Tell me what child want to sleep with a clown? Remember the movie Poltergeist? And this isn't like Circus Circus, this is smack in the middle of scrub country.

If my father after driving hours through the desert and it was twilight with the lightning in the sky - pulled up to the Clown Motel and said, "Hey, kids let's stay here for the night while the storm passes."

I'd give him the middle finger.. not just no, but hell no .. I'd rather sleep on top of the rusty tractor near the town's cemetery than with a whole bunch of clowns with room keys,

I took many more pictures, including of few of lone wild stallion near the Sierra Nevada mountains. I will post all these tomorrow if I get the chance.

Good night .. muhhhahahahhahaaaa.

Tonopah Oasis

Don't think they're grizzlies in Tonopah.

Decided that my life was enough - Under Construction - to go on another road trip. Left Vegas around 5pm, which was little too late, so I decided to stop in Tonopah Ramada Inn. I can't imagine this place has changed much in the last thirty years.

I put a few bucks though a slot machine, decided to cash out with around five bucks and then realized there was no TiTo - Ticket in / Ticket out. With no ticket system, I had to wait on a hand pay. They guy was pretty cool. Found out he was an MMA - or so he claims. He did have the knuckles to prove it though.

So, going to wake up early in the morning and try to make it through Reno.

Sunflower

A sunflower appeared in my backyard. It has some nerve squatting here without my permission, but I have agreed to let it stay.

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This video was taken on July 4, 2001 just outside of the Red Rock Hotel & Casino parking lot. It is the fireworks show that Stations Casino does every year. I used my Canon EOS Rebel T2i



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Weed Card

As I've written before I have MS and can qualify for medical marijuana in Nevada. And no, I do not have a "weed card" - for three reasons:

1. It's still a federal crime and the DEA will bust you even though you have a state-approved license.
2. There are no good medical studies yet that prove any concrete benefits to using pot for MS.
3. In Nevada, you have grow and harvest your own marijuana and I just don't want to go through the hassle. Also I have a child and I don't want to expose her to the whole process.

Don't get me wrong - there's nothing inherently evil in pot. It's a drug and like all other drugs (including alcohol and tobacco) it can be abused. And like all other drugs it is a toxin. But the toxic and behavioral affects of pot, compared to legal drugs like caffeine, tobacco and alcohol are far less.

Such is the bizzzaro-world of American drug enforcement. By the way, I don't drink or smoke either.

All of that above to show this very funny video I found on G4 sung by the girls Garfunkel & Oates.

Tortoises doing the wild thang

My daughter and I went to a small zoo in Moapa, Nevada. We were looking at the rabbits when there was a loud noise that sounded like an animal in severe distress. I ran over and saw this one legged tortoise doing getting "busy". The male tortoise is estimated to by close to 70 years old and only have one forearm. Now that is stamina.




Roos-N-More

Escape to Vegas Mountain

I couldn't take the heat anymore so I escaped to a local mountain called, Mt. Charleston. I took along all three cameras - the fisheye, multilens and the Olympus (old school) OM-1 35mm. Here are some pictures from all three. I present them for your enjoyment.

The weather up there was great - I was at about 8,000 feet and the temperature was around 80 degrees. There was a light wind and you could hear it rustle through the trees. There was the smell of pine and I could actually hear animals. Sometimes living in the city - if it wasn't for the color of money, I forget what the color green looks like. - NOTE - I did not see Elvis.

Ultimate Elvis Weekend

July 23 - 24 at the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas.

It's everything Elvis this weekend in Las Vegas. Over twenty Elvis impersonators will compete in a Blue Suede Shoes contest. There will be a mass wedding ceremony conducted by the King. Karaoke singing and dancing and a parade down Fremont Street led by Elvis in a pink Cadillac. 

Who knows maybe the real Elvis will show up? You know Yours-Truly will be looking  for him.

Schedule of Events:

Friday, July 23
· 8:00 p.m. – Parade of the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Contestants led by a Pink Cadillac
· 8:10 p.m. – Elvis Contestants walk the Red Carpet to the stage
· 8:15 p.m.– Midnight – Ultimate Elvis Tribute Competition, 1st Street Stage
· Midnight – Midnight Mass – Wedding Vow Renewal, 1st Street Stage
· Midnight–2 a.m. – Elvis Karaoke, Main Street Stage (open to the public)

Saturday, July 24
· 8:00 p.m. – Parade of the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Contestants led by a Pink Cadillac
· 8:10 p.m. – Elvis Contestants walk the Red Carpet to the stage
· 8:15 p.m.– Midnight – Ultimate Elvis Tribute Competition, 1st Street Stage
· Midnight – Midnight Mass – Wedding Vow Renewal, 1st Street Stage
· Midnight–2 a.m. – Elvis Karaoke, Main Street Stage (open to the public

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