{"id":32,"date":"2006-07-08T15:18:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T19:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:01:30","slug":"its-las-vegas-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/08\/its-las-vegas-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh.. misBehave.. It&#8217;s Las Vegas Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/fullsize\/Vegas\/Las Vegas Strip 800.gif\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Welcome to Las Vegas!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/thumbs\/Vegas\/Las Vegas Strip 200px.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"189\" alt=\"Welcome to Las Vegas!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a long time Paul has been wanting to get back to Las Vegas Nevada. While I always contended it was because his friends at the Bunny Ranch were missing him. He claims he just likes the &#8220;Glitter of the Gulch&#8221;, the casinos and especially the monster buffets!<\/p>\n<p>Well, I like the same things, so we decided a road trip was in order. Having a long 4th of July weekend we caught a flight out early Saturday the 1st. and arrived before noon. Picked up a car with GOOD air conditioning and headed to the hotel to check in. Since we were a little early decided to hit our first buffet. Bellies full we returned and checked in. Took a nap and headed out into the desert sunset.<br \/>\nPlayed a few slots.. naturally.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/fullsize\/Vegas\/Las Vegas PK Winner full.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Paul hits on the slots - this was not the only time.......\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/thumbs\/Vegas\/Las Vegas PK Winner 200w.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"194\" alt=\"One of us was a winner......\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/fullsize\/Vegas\/Las Vegas GK Loser.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"George dumps his last quarter.....\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/thumbs\/Vegas\/Las Vegas GK Loser 200w.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"194\" alt=\"and one of us was a loser............. you figure it out.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul pulls the crank looking for the downpayment on his new Phaeton.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Played a few slots, yes we did.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the highlights was going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthonycools.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Cools Experience<\/a> which is a &#8220;Adult Oriented&#8221; hypnosis show. His web site is a little outdated, since he is at the Excalibur now. I just know I am very glad I did not volunteer to be hypnotized! It was far to funny, and only a few pictures from this show can probably be posted.<\/p>\n<p>A visit to the Hoover dam Sunday morning while it was still cool, every day was over 105 degrees there.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/thumbs\/Vegas\/Outside Temp 107.gif\" alt=\"107 was not the highest temp we saw.... but it is a DRY heat so it's okay.\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto taken inside our car.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do good panorama views you should really carry a tripod&#8230; but even by hand it did an okay job&#8230; except for the final two frames which did not align very well. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/MovieTime\/Vegas\/Las Vegas Hoover Panorama Movie.mov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hoover Dam panorama.<\/a> Look closely for the yellow crane which is putting in the new highway to bypass driving over the dam. Note this is pretty big so it will take a few minutes to download, but making it smaller loses to much detail. Tip 2: In the lower left is a &#8211; and + symbol. Use the &#8211; to go as small as it will, then you can use the + to zoom in on an area.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/fullsize\/Vegas\/Use the MOV zoom.gif\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Tips on using the panorama MOV buttons.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/thumbs\/Vegas\/Use the MOV zoom 200.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Tips on using the Panorama MOV features.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/fullsize\/Vegas\/Use the MOV zoom 2.gif\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Using the panorama zoom feature.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/thumbs\/Vegas\/Use the MOV zoom 2 200.gif\" width=\"152\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Using the panorama zoom feature.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also enjoy this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GMovies\/hooverdam\/hooverdam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">short video compilation <\/a>(in Flash) about the building of the dam.<br \/>\nYou may need to click on the green arrow to start the movie.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kasdorf.name\/Wordpress\/wp-images\/fullsize\/Vegas\/flashcontrols.jpg\" alt=\"Flash player controls.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am not going to detail everything we did here, look at the photo albums and the captions when we get them posted. Suffice it to say I had very tired feet, legs and back. We must have walked 15 miles over the three day before we headed home Tuesday morning, pennyless and tired.. but fully fed and relaxed until the next trip.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Wonder where it will be next?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m thinking South to Georgia in the fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Coming up next locally is the NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway. Hope to get lots of good pictures since we have Pit Passes this year to tour the infield and garages before the race&#8230;. maybe the Budweiser <del datetime=\"2006-07-08T19:02:51+00:00\">Girls<\/del> Race Car with Dale Jr. will be there.<\/p>\n<p>Until they turn off the lights on the Vegas Strip,<br \/>\nGeorge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dam, it&#8217;s Hoovers outside of Las Vegas. . .  where &#8220;what go&#8217;s on in Vegas doesn&#8217;t stay in Vegas&#8230; it&#8217;s all put on the Kazology web site!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}