Quick Facts:

• Distance Traveled: 601 miles
• Temperature: Hot with weird hot wind
• Hotel: The Stratosphere, the one shaped like a space needle
• Dinner: A surprisingly good sea bass at the Luxor, the one shaped like a pyramid

The drive over was smooth and fast, considering. I now know it’s not that bad to drive 600 miles in one day. The Mojave Desert was hot but not unbearable, especially since we spent most of the drive under a sheet of clouds.

This is the second time I’ve been to Vegas. I’ve now been to the entire strip. I put a dollar into a slot machine and did not win. Bummer. I watched people on drugs and women in tiny tiny tops and drunken packs of 35-year-old housewives out on the town with the girls. One lady was not wearing pants–she was wearing white leggings circa 1989 and a red polka-dot shirt, and the leggings were completely see-through. Two old guys with stringy hair were filming a handsome young man walking down the Vegas Strip for a movie or TV show. The actor was looking up at the lights in a country-mouse-in-the-city kind of way, and he did not break character even when the old guy shooed a woman out of his path by shouting “Clear!” Everything is so dramatic in Vegas. I suggested to Kyle we get matching “Sin City Kitty” tee-shirts, but he wouldn’t go for it.

It was fun, but Vegas is getting so expensive! I’m mean really, if I am going to buy a $12 cocktail, I’d better be in the fanciest most awesome bar in San Francisco, not in an overrated desert town. Where was the free food? The $2 margaritas? Will people keep coming here when they realize all that’s going away?

Probably. But I won’t.

Today, I am going to … Gallup, New Mexico … possibly? Adventure!