Update - Danoodle on the road

Am currently touring the South on a road trip. Things definitely move slower here - possibly because of the HOT weather. Outside Charleston, SC, our car temp gauge showed 107 degrees. Am not in Marin currently, so don't know what's happening since I haven't had many Internet connections on this road trip. It's amazing how uninformed one can get - deliberately! Busy sightseeing.

Danoodle in Vegas

I just took a week's vacation in that cultural mecca - Las Vegas! It has been a few years since I was there, and what a change! The building going on there reminds me of what daughter wrote about Beiijing, China, after visiting there this past summer, that the air was totally polluted because of the enormous amount of construction going on for the Olympics. Well, the air in Las Vegas is not that polluted, but the cranes and construction worker-bees are certainly busy. And the traffic is at metropolitan city levels!

Las Vegas has a symphony and an art museum, which I did not check out. It's easy to catch a show or two on the Strip, and go casino-hopping (no, I don't gamble) to see the lush, and sometimes gawdy, interiors of the hotels and shopping areas. The weather was perfect at night (70), and hot during the day.

The number of very good restaurants is surprising, and one feels removed from the Strip atmosphere at many of them. The best view at night is atop THE Hotel (attached to Mandalay Bay).

Daughter joined hubby and me for a fast family vacation, although we hesitated to mention "Las Vegas" to our friends on East & West Coasts. The town was surprisingly pleasant.

Photo from www.urbanphotos.net.