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![Las Vegas, Part Deux - March 18, 2001
[Ten years ago, I moved from Washington, DC to San Diego, CA. I am re-publishing the things I wrote during that move exactly ten years after they happened. Read the intro here.]
After having our tons of crap unloaded, we went to Las Vegas for the weekend. I haven’t been winning as much money this time (okay, I’ve lost $70), but we enjoyed just staying in the same place for more than one night. For me, it has been 11 straight nights in different locations. We stayed in the Monte Carlo, which is approximately 200 times nicer than the Excalibur. I felt like the wizened tour guide - after all, I had been there exactly one more time than Jennifer.
The best thing about this visit is that it is the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, and the sports gamblers are going crazy. Every bar we stop in to catch some games has at least one guy desperately rooting for somebody to cover the spread. There are people high-fiving strangers, huge cheers for last-second baskets. It’s like we’re on every team’s campus all at once. I wasn’t brave enough to lay money down* but it was fun to watch everyone else.
*Note: this would change in the intervening 10 years.
Tomorrow marks the end of our trip - we will finally begin our lives as Californians. As anxious I am to get settled in, I’m also going to miss the life on the road a bit. It’s not something you can do indefinitely, but it has a certain charm.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhyidywTHn1qa2bhbo1_400.jpg)
Las Vegas, Part Deux - March 18, 2001
[Ten years ago, I moved from Washington, DC to San Diego, CA. I am re-publishing the things I wrote during that move exactly ten years after they happened. Read the intro here.]
After having our tons of crap unloaded, we went to Las Vegas for the weekend. I haven’t been winning as much money this time (okay, I’ve lost $70), but we enjoyed just staying in the same place for more than one night. For me, it has been 11 straight nights in different locations. We stayed in the Monte Carlo, which is approximately 200 times nicer than the Excalibur. I felt like the wizened tour guide - after all, I had been there exactly one more time than Jennifer.
The best thing about this visit is that it is the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, and the sports gamblers are going crazy. Every bar we stop in to catch some games has at least one guy desperately rooting for somebody to cover the spread. There are people high-fiving strangers, huge cheers for last-second baskets. It’s like we’re on every team’s campus all at once. I wasn’t brave enough to lay money down* but it was fun to watch everyone else.
*Note: this would change in the intervening 10 years.
Tomorrow marks the end of our trip - we will finally begin our lives as Californians. As anxious I am to get settled in, I’m also going to miss the life on the road a bit. It’s not something you can do indefinitely, but it has a certain charm.
