As the needle dug into my flesh, I recalled how much a tattoo can hurt. I also remembered that it wasn’t nearly as painful as I first anticipated. And in the end, for a design I truly loved, it was all worth it. I wasn’t at Denver’s Th’ink tank Tattoo, though, for a new tattoo, […]
Tag Archives: Nevada
A Las Vegas Trip to Death Valley National Park
It only takes about two hours to get from the hotels on the Las Vegas Strip to Death Valley National Park, a short and easy day trip from the craziness of Sin City. I stood atop Dante’s View with my friend, happy to have made the drive. We got a deal on a car rental […]
A Weekend at the Venetian Resort Las Vegas
I spent this past weekend at the Venetian Hotel Las Vegas with my brother and a friend. We were in town for the University of Minnesota and UNLV football game. We got a good deal on a rental car, so made the drive out from The Strip to Sam Boyd stadium Thursday night. We had […]
What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas
The old saying says that what happens in Sin City stays there, but that’s not exactly true. And I’m not talking that hilarious herpes line from the movie The Hangover. I came back with the flu and a cold that I’ve been battling all week, and I can only think it’s because of the poor […]
Touring the Titanic in Las Vegas
I’ve been to Las Vegas so many times on vacation it’s not even funny. But, when it comes down to seeing anything in the town, I’m really rather a novice to be quite honest. I can tell you exactly how to get to the bathroom in so many casinos, but I’ve never really done any […]
Roughing It
In high school my English Language & Literature teacher made me read Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; I was none too impressed with her for this as I did not care for his writing style. I struggled with every page and have thus held a grudge against the man since. The perfect storm […]
A Night at Wendover’s Montego Bay
Wendover and West Wendover – straddling the border of Utah and Nevada, respectively – have never been on my radar as tourism hotspots. I passed through the area earlier in the year, but I just shrugged it off as a trucker stop and weekend getaway spot for Utahans interested in exercising a few of the […]
A Night at the Rio in Las Vegas
On any trip I’ve taken to Las Vegas, I have always stayed on the Strip. Not once have I spent the night downtown or anywhere else off the Strip. But, as I passed through on my way back to Colorado from my road trip through California, I knew I had the prefect opportunity to finally […]
