A Few Redbots for Las Vegas

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on October 19, 2009

Thurs­day — Vaca­tion Time Arrives

After a cou­ple very busy weeks for Red­bot and myself, it was very nice to get away to Las Vegas (or, Lost Wages, as I often call it…) this week­end with my wife Tania and to meet with her cousin from Min­nesota, Maria, and her hus­band Mark.

We planned this trip months ago, and when the time arrived we were very much look­ing for­ward to this brief vaca­tion in that odd lit­tle city of elec­tric lights in the Nevada desert.

You wouldn’t call me a huge Vegas fan… I’m not a gam­bler, and my brain often get’s over-stimulated by all the sounds, lights, col­ors, the strange faces and out­fits of ordi­nary peo­ple cre­at­ing a mov­ing phan­tas­magor­i­cal weird-land… some­times that fills me with strange won­der and other times I hear a lit­tle voice in the back of my head say­ing, “run away, run away…”

This time was more of the lat­ter for me — the rea­son being I was on the verge of an exhausted col­lapse and the need of days of unin­terupted sleep­ing to recharge my bat­ter­ies after all the intense Red­bot fun, and other activ­i­ties of the pre­vi­ous few weeks.

I call that a good exhaus­tion. All good stuff, all great times (except that root canal thing), but I’m not a Red­bot of end­less being and energy — I just make them.

Below: That’s me catch­ing a bit of sleep with my dog Mose­ley once we got to the hotel…

But once we got out onto the Las Vegas streets my eyes auto­mat­i­cally started into the process look­ing for places to stick Red­bots — this town needs some Red­bot love I kept thinking…

Fri­day — A Small Red­bot Army for Las Vegas

Below: I pre­pared a hand­ful of Red­bots before we set out on Fri­day afternoon…

I picked up a Star­bucks cof­fee (Vinte — $3.30) as we left the Westin Hotel and headed over to The Bellagio…

Below: On Flamingo Road we left our first Redbot…

We walked a lit­tle fur­ther and found a great loca­tion on the side of the 24/7 Liquor store…

Below: Jon and Red­bot. Photo by Tania

Below: another view with me in it, from the side… photo by Tania

While we waited at The Bel­la­gio for Maria and Mark, Red­bot got into the flower arrange­ments in the lobby under­neath the great Chi­huly glass ceiling.

Below: Bel­la­gio Red­bot Flower Inspector

Fri­day Night — Other Stuff…

Our big plan was to see The Bea­t­les LOVE by Cirque du Soleil at The Mirage — which we did on Fri­day night. WOW!

This is the first Cirque du Soleil show I’ve ever seen in per­son and I was in a con­stant state of amaze­ment and happy won­der at the magic of it all… this is what I would call a  “Spec­ta­cle”. If you have a chance to see it, don’t pass it up.

We wan­dered around some after the show and towards the end of the evening we stopped at a bar way down The Strip that served Chi­may — an excel­lent Bel­gian beer, said good night to Maria and Mark and took a taxi back to our hotel and our dogs, Mose­ley and Suki.

Back Home Again

Tania and I enjoyed a beau­ti­ful and lazy Sat­ur­day after­noon drive across the desert, fol­low­ing I-15 through Barstow and down the Cajon Pass where it fans out into all parts of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, includ­ing a num­ber of Free­way choices which will take us back to our home and stu­dio in Long Beach, where we arrived in time for the dogs evening walk.

It’s good to be back in Long Beach.

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