1984 … Viva la Vida, Las Vegas
Las Vegas was our next main stopover. I still remember the lights and the glamour and the noise and the sleepless faces. And I remember the zombied eyes & slackened jaws of those wiling their lives away at slot machine and betting tables. And I remember my hyper-nervous mother receiving a subtle tip from a casino employee as to which slot machine was about to bust. And I remember watching her insert her last quarter in a neighboring machine instead. And then I remember watching another patron indeed win a small fortune on the very machine originally identified. I also find it to be somewhat curious that the only casino I – a future vegan – would enter that day would be called Circus Circus …
“A little bit of Las Vegas goes a very long way.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
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