Couple more vegas facts, sighted, floating

There were a few things I forgot to mention about Vegas. One odd thing I noticed was they don’t have any painted lines on the roads. I do not know why, maybe the heat, maybe something else. Instead they use those reflector bumps as line markers. The problem is many of them are missing or damaged so they are very hard to see in many situations, a strange plan.

The prevalence of gaming machines is not limited to casinos or the airport. When I stopped to grab something to drink at the convenience store, they had slots and video poker there as well! There were a couple down on thier luck guys playing on some of them. Unreal.

Yesterday as I was crossing the intersection with 3 lanes going either way, I spotted an interesting individual in the middle of the intersection. If I were to guess his age I would say late 30’s to early 40’s with a buzz haircut and facial hair. He was wearing a button down short sleeve shirt with baggy, rapper style, denim shorts. His mode of transportation was an old beat up skateboard and in his one hand he had a lit cigarette, in the other he wielded a fishing pole. I continued to look at him as he crossed the street on the skateboard while taking a drag on the cig, in my rear view mirror as I went up the road.

June has been incredibly wet, it officially is the most rain that Naples has ever seen in a month, more than 21 inches of rain has fallen. A normal amount of rainfall for the year in our area is around 50 inches. We got nearly half of that in one month.