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Las Vegas Strip

 I was, rather. :))

But then I left again. HAHAHA!

Not knowing things beforehand is one of the reasons why living is exciting. Of course, bad things will happen as well but having the opportunity to look forward to something special is enough to endure.

I am saying this 'cause after all the drama I had when I left the states four years ago, I was able to go again. Regardless if I only stayed for a couple of days in what I consider my second home, being able to go back was in it a miracle already. 

Las Vegas Strip

My friend brought me to a parking space just across the Las Vegas Strip and we stayed here for a couple of minutes just to take in the view and to let it sink in (to me) that I was back in Vegas. HAHAHA! I know that I've been to countless places by now but whenever I think about them, hindi pa rin ako makapaniwala. lol


I bought my current camera because I hated it when I wasn't able to capture the moon in photos when I was living here. The size of the moon is usually a lot bigger there than how we're used to in the Philippines. I would always stare at it especially during full moon but no matter how I try, my camera back then wasn't capable of taking a decent shot. 


It wasn't a full moon but I was able to capture it still. Amazing how it still shines bright despite Las Vegas Strip's light pollution. 


We didn't have a particular hotel in mind so we just went to Fremont / Downtown Vegas to kill some time. 


Fremont Street link: here.


Lots of details have changed since 2016 but this is still the Las Vegas I know. <3

Las Vegas Strip

After walking around this area, we went back to the car and headed to the Las Vegas Sign. That night, we were feeling that we were parting ways again so we were taking it slow while inhaling the marijuana smoke we were passing by at every once in a while. HAHAHA!

But life was is generous. After this day in Vegas, we were able to meet again here in the Philippines and spent a day together. <3

With lots of food this time, though. Very far from the rice cooker corned beef sinangag and the three days old adobo that we ate when touring around San Francisco. 


'Cause hey, for starters, you should really visit the famous Las Vegas Sign. :))

Las Vegas Strip

To the first place where I experienced freedom and independence, I will visit you again in this lifetime.

Goodbye, My Love - Tintin 2016 version. Medyo ma-drama po siya. :)))


Grateful for the gift of adventure.

Always.


Yes, Europe? :))
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This is "home" in San Diego, California. From here, it takes 4 1/2 hours to get to Las Vegas Strip, Nevada via Interstate-15. That's around 329 miles or 540 km. I researched and according to Google maps, my house in Quezon City to Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte is around 567 km. Kaya ata ilagay sa loob ng California at Nevada ang buong Pilipinas. Haha! Tinatamad lang ako i-search. 

Since this is a "road trip,"  let's choose a song that we'll listen on loop until it feels like torture. 


For California - Nevada, I choose "Are you gonna be my girl?" by Jet. Why? This is one of the songs I remember from the movie, " What Happens in Vegas"  hahahaha e syempre kasi excited ako kaya nanood ako ng movies na na-shoot sa Vegas dati tas ito 'yung isa sa tumatak sa isip ko.

Pag naririnig ko 'to at naalala ko 'yung Primm, feels like Las Vegas 2016 all over again. Lam mo 'yon. hahahahahahahahaha. Muntanga, noh? I associate songs to places I've gone to. Parang nasa music video.😂 And for this particular song, those are funny memories kaya hahahahahahahahahaha. 🤭 

USA 2016 SOJOURN

Going back to the road trip...


Las Vegas Strip is just a small part of the state of Nevada but it's the most famous resort area there. There are other Resort Areas and National Parks that can be of interest though such as Reno, Laughlin, Lake Tahoe and many more. Most of the places I've gone to in 2016 are indexed in the link above, while most of the places I visited in 2019 are yet to find their way to this blog. Sipag yern? HAHAHA


There are three stop over options (that I know of) that you'll be passing through along the Interstate 15 on the way to Vegas.

Barstow - this was the stop over we frequented mainly because there's a Walmart and we buy food there on the way to California. 
Baker - I have a photo of the world's largest thermometer in this area but I haven't stopped there yet. 
Primm - This area is where I lived. This was home to me but a stop-over for most people since there's a mall, gasoline station, three hotels in the area aside from our apartment complex. It takes around an hour to get to the town from here.


Death Valley National Park is located both in California and Nevada (along the stateline). There's an access road along this highway (I-15) but the one we drove through when we went there was the one in Pahrump cause we wanted to see the road that leads to Lake Tahoe. 

Death Valley National Park
#1: Twenty Mule Team Canyon Outlook
#2: Zabriskie Point
#3: Badwater Basin/ Lowest Point in North America
#4: Dante's View and Artist Drive
#5: Sandstorm/ Haboob at Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes

[Klook Link] Death Valley Small Group Day Tour from Las Vegas 


This is the largest thermometer in the world in Baker, California. It can get really hot in Vegas since it's in the middle of the desert and there's not a lot of vegetation so I think, this thermometer is a great addition just so you'd have an idea about what kind of heat you're getting yourself into that day. 


In the movie "A Walk to Remember," one of Jamie's bucket list is to be in two places at once. This place, btw, is one of the borders of Nevada and California. During my first few days in the States last 2016, I met a friend who taught me that the interstate line is somewhere here.

After singing "Someday We'll Know" I was told, "You're now in two places at once."

Lottery is not legal in Nevada but just walk across that line to California and there's a Lotto Outlet. Tuwang tuwa na ko sa little discovery ko that time. Na ganon lang pala 'yung interstate borders. HAHAHA!


Home.
No matter how much time passes
That's what you will always be to me
Home. ❤️

I'll be back for you someday. ❤️


Seven Magic Mountains (Art Installation)

[Klook Link] Seven Magic Mountains, Hoover Dam, and Grand Canyon West Rim Tour from Las Vegas


After our Las Vegas adventures.
 We drove back to San Diego


Clark County, Nevada, USA: Pitstop at Nelson Ghost Town

Las Vegas, Nevada USA: Target Shooting in the Desert

Searchlight, Nevada USA: Nelson's Landing Cliff Jumping Site


[Klook Link] Wild West Ghost Town Explorer Day Tour from Las Vegas


I've yet to post the other places I've visited in LV. Soon, soon. I don't know lang how soon.


Road back to California

This road (interstate highway) is visible from the laundry room in my apartment complex before and this looks so beautiful at night. The mountains are dark with lights from passing cars. I've always wondered what it felt like to drive out of there and now, look, I don't even remember how many times I passed through the highway. 


Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, Nevada

USA 2016: See You Again, Love - Las Vegas, Nevada

USA 2019: I Am Back, Love - Las Vegas, Nevada

I wrote these articles and while I was reading them, it was as if they were written by two different persons. I've already made a post about this when I posted my solo travel in Busan photodump but the difference between 2016 and 2019 was obtained through growth and acceptance. I wanted to cling to whatever was there in 2016 that's why it pained me terribly that I were to leave. During 2019, I've accepted that Las Vegas is "my home" and it will always be but then it's not someplace that I were to stay at for long. I'm very thankful for the opportunity to be able to travel back there but no more tears were shed upon departure. Just a heart that's looking forward to visiting there again someday. 


I want to repost a part of my Busan photodump, "I realized that I didn't cry 'cause I didn't want to leave. I cried for the freedom and strength I thought I was losing once I go back to the Philippines. I didn't realize immediately that the independence and strength were with me all along since then - they became part of my identity."




I hope you're doing well. 😊


Everything, in time. 💖

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After checking out at Planet Hollywood Hotel, I ate lunch first at a Filipino buffet somewhere in Maryland Parkway.  I was having mixed emotions that moment while we were driving from the strip to Maryland.

I was leaving Las Vegas, my first home away from home, without knowing if I'll ever have the chance to go back so I was kind of heartbroken. At the same time, I was happy and kind of excited about the next journey that I am to experience - wherever that will be. 


Last glimpse of the Paris Hotel along Las Vegas Strip. I kind of saw a picture of the hotel casinos in Macau and I believe that the hotels there are kind of similar to the hotels in Vegas.


Arc de Triomphe

Someday!!

Las Vegas has a lot of replicas of tourists spots that can be found in Europe. Hehe. This is hoping that I'll be able to set foot and bring my family to Europe come 2018. So tataya muna ko sa lotto. But in all seriousness though, I wish that in this lifetime, I'll be given the chance to bring my mother to Europe. I wish for her to go to France and that we can see the churches of Lourdes, Fatima and the Miraculous Medal there.


The night before my departure to San Diego, California. I have purchased a one-way bus ticket to Anaheim (Disneyland Area) that was to depart at 3 PM here in California Hotel at Fremont.


When you look at the strip at this area, it looks like it's so small but then again, I wasn't able to explore all the hotels there. I'm not sure why we did that but we somehow concentrated on the hotels at the North part of Las Vegas Boulevard from Fremont to Cosmopolitan Hotel. 



Funny how I can still remember the feeling of astonishment when I first saw Las Vegas at night from the hotel that I checked in at when I arrived there. Grabe! And when this gets posted, six months have already passed since that night. Sobrang bilis, life!

Bye, Interstate 15!!!!! :(

I miss the 45 minutes bus ride from the interstate to the city. :(

Approaching the Nevada - California Stateline, you are to see four hotels. This, Goldstrike, which I wasn't able to go to. Well, we were but we decided to go straight to Fremont. 

Also, there's Primm Valley Resorts and Casino, Buffalo Bills, and Whiskey Pete's.

This place will also be your last chance of shopping with big discounts before heading back to California. Some stores in Fashion Outlet at Primm even have bigger discounts compared to the outlet stores that I was able to go to for both Nevada and California. 

Thanks for being my home, Desert Oasis.

Looking at this for the last time back then, I was already feeling numb tbh. I was really hurt, I mean I got attached to the lifestyle I had in the states (though I'm over it na), so leaving even if I was expecting it to happen eventually kind of felt that I left too soon. Pero diba, smile because it happened? :) 

I am still thankful though it wasn't all good memories and in the span of three months I got to get to know a different side of me. Makakasurvive pala ko. Hehehe. 

It's really a good thing that it was Vegas - the Sin City - where I ended up going to. 

We had a quick bus stop-over in Barstow so I was able to grab some fries and chicken nuggets at McDonald's. I sent a picture of this to my friend back in the Philippines and she was like, "So move on na nga?" Coincidentally, the current commercial of Mcdo that month was all about moving on. hahaha! 


The bus was moving fast and my camera isn't hi-tech enough to capture the beauty of the moon but this was the strawberry moon. I left Las Vegas at the first day of summer (it was 110 Farenheit that day)  The reason why the moon was special because it fell on the first day of summer, something that hasn't happened since 1948. 

The moon was really beautiful. I know this would sound weird but it felt like the moon was saying bye to me to 'cause in our apartment complex in Nevada, I always looked up at night to see the stars and the moon.


I want to be positive and think of the possibility of being able to go back in Las Vegas in the next few years. And just like song of The Cab, it may be "a long ride back to Vegas skies."
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This was that night.

That night when we decided that we aren't going home and just explore the whole Las Vegas Boulevard until sunrise. Were we able to do it? Not quite but almost there. Haha!


This was in Centennial Plaza, still in Downtown Las Vegas.

The area in the middle of Fremont Street Experience and Las Vegas Strip. A place where not a lot of people walk at especially after midnight. Don't ask me what in the world were we thinking when we did this 'cause I don't know either. It just felt right during that time. 


We passed through The Venetian once again. If you've seen pictures of Vegas at day light, you would have probably noticed that it gets more beautiful at night with all the lights. 

However, those lights are already considered light pollution that you can instantly locate where Las Vegas is when you're in the outer space.

I have pictures of the hotel in these links:

Outside
Inside



We then entered Circus, Circus. It was the first hotel I saw when we got lost there but never had the chance to go in. We chanced upon the last free show. The kind of show that you are to watch varies, but it was aerial silk for that time slot. 



Went out to look for something to eat.
We wanted a special meal.
A break from just purchasing whatever the cheapest available meal there is.

So then, we ate at The Henry, a restaurant in Cosmopolitan Hotel. Aside from the buffet meals and hotel meals I had when I was staying with my Aunt in San Diego, this was the most high-end meal I had in Vegas. Hahaha! I would usually be fine spending until $15 for a meal but this was a bit beyond my/our usual price range and it isn't even a buffet. 




Did I regret? No. Not at all. 

Although our food arrived like 30 minutes after we placed our order, the time was enough for us to get ourselves clean for a bit because we have been walking for the whole night. The service was also excellent, didn't even have to ask for a water refill because the waiter was attentive. 


We over ordered. 

You know when you're so hungry that you feel that you can eat everything that's served in front of you? That was what happened to us. Upon ordering, we asked each other, "Would that be enough? Should we add one more meal?" Hence, we ordered fish and chips that we eventually took home 'cause the sandwich that each of us had was more than enough. 



It doesn't look big in the picture but this one's really big. It's bigger and has more meat than that of a usual sandwich. Well it's not like it's the first time that we got confused whether it's a Filipino amount of serving or an American. haha! When we ate at Elli's Island BBQ, we were hungry but the appetizer (bread and salad) was able to make us full that we took home the main course.

We were thinking of continuing our walkathon but our friend drove to Cosmopolitan and he decided to drive us around instead. So eventually, we we never had the chance to explore the other hotels at the South of Las Vegas Boulevard but it was totally fine. 

Las Vegas Sign: here.



Yes. Yes to this lifestyle, universe!
The life I have imagined. <3



Watching the fountains of Bellagio with Paris Hotel and Planet Hollywood in front will forever be a memory I'll hold close in my heart. <3 I don't know when's the next time that I'll be seeing you, Vegas but I know that I will be able to return someday...:)


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The only time that I looked at Vegas before going there was when I watched the movie, "What Happens in Vegas" haha! I know it's crazy that you can easily get married even if you're drunk or even it's a decision you just thought of because you're drunk but it may actually be real in some cases.

The notable establishments we saw especially here in Downtown Vegas were all the wedding chapels, motels, wedding boutiques, divorce and bail bonds. :)) Wedding in Vegas is very convenient that I thought of doing it too. CHAROTTTTTTTT!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Are you aware of that man who got married to his phone? Yep, that's in Vegas. 


There's a bus that we ride and we alight just blocks before Fremont so we don't get lost but that one night when we weren't from our apartment but from elsewhere 'cause I sent money to the Philippines (Yes, OFW duties. hehe. Kailangan ko talaga i-mention 'yan!), we got lost. Can't tell you what my friend and I were talking about but we reached an area where it was all churches. Our first time reaching that place - we didn't know that the Sin City has a lot of churches! Kailangan mag save ng souls? :)) Kailangan na i-save souls namin? :))
This is Fremont Street.

There's a Zipline called the Slotzilla Experience. It's just not my thing to zipline across the street being seen by all those tourists. Gusto ko mga bangin! 
Binions Casino has a Million dollar cash display where you can take pictures with if you're over 21 years old. I look young (WAHAHA! Totoo 'to) that I had to always bring my passport with me whenever I go to places like this. They just wouldn't believe that I'm a bit past my 21st year on Earth. 


Anyway, have you seen the music video of Bruno Mars' latest song? That was shot in Vegas, most are in Fremont Street and the Las Vegas Strip.






The experience and the atmosphere in Las Vegas Strip is a lot different from Fremont Street. Fremont somehow feels more laid back and friendlier compared to the Strip. You can also explore all the hotels here in one day compared to Vegas Strip where you'd have to spend 2-3 days to explore all the hotels in the area.

Not to mention that it's usually cheaper here compared to strip - food, souvenirs, and hotel wise.
This is the East Side of the Fremont Street where you can find the clubs. For those under 21 years old, there are clubs that they can go to at Henderson area - clubs that don't serve any alcoholic beverages. Isipin niyo na lang, nakakalasing ang milkshake. HAHA
Will it sound weird that not even once did I enter a club while in Vegas when it's a famous place for that? :)) Haha! Usually if not sightseeing, gambling in the casino while asking for free cocktails was what I did during my free times. 

When we tell people about that one night when we decided to walk along Las Vegas Boulevard, they would usually ask us, "Are you crazy?" No we're not. We just fell deeply inlove with Vegas that time that we were courageous enough to do something as "dangerous" like that. I am well aware that it's not 100% safe but we felt so safe while we were there sooooo...
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