Return to Vegas

I know I am a relatively new member to this site, but this seems like the site to share my thoughts of Vegas after returning from a 2 week trip, so I am reposting a post I made from another site that I visit. My apologises for the redundancy for those that are members of both sites.

I grew up and lived my first 18 years in Florida by the ocean. It was a fantastic and fun place to grow up. After high school I moved to and lived in Philadelphia for 8 and a half year. I consider than my adoptive city. I still love and follow the sports teams and have many friends there that I miss dearly. Philly is a great place for a young person lo live. Many clubs and activities and always something going on.

I felt the pull of Vegas from my first trip six years ago and the day I moved to Vegas and stepped off the plane, I knew that I was truly home. I love this place. The excitement. The lights. The good and the bad. Residing here 2 and a half years has not diminished these feelings one iota. Returning from a 2 week trip last night, I think I started looking out the window for the bright lights somewhere around Denver. When I finally saw this desert paradise of neon that makes up the strip, my heart was racing like a school boy with a crush. I play less and less on the strip these days, but it I spend a great deal of time there. The excitement and bright lights of the strip is my home and I think it has been since long before I moved here. I feel so blessed to live here and be able to support myself in the manner that I do (playing blackjack). When I finally do see those bright lights, the feeling is well...orgasmic. The only thing that could make it better for me is if one of those big aluminum birds that we fly in, were somehow transformed into a time machine enabling me to visit the Vegas of 20, 30, 50 years ago that I romanticize about...just for a day. I know some of you don't share my feelings for Vegas, whether you live here or visit often and some of you down right despise the place. I truly hope that your home, wherever it may be, provides you with the same euphoric warm feelings that I have for Vegas.

Quote: kewlj

I truly hope that your home, wherever it may be, provides you with the same euphoric warm feelings that I have for Vegas.

Well, not Vegas...BUT...I've been going to Reno almost every weekend for five years now...and the feeling is still the same as the first time...when you get over that last hill on Robb Road and the skyline comes into view it gives me that euphoric feeling...it never gets old.

i hate to admit it, but i get the same sense of euphoria
on the garden state parkway (new jersey) after exit 52
right when the bus goes over the bass river
and i spy the skyline of atlantic city for the first time.
it doesn't quite compare to the feeling of flying into my home airport of LaGuardia
but it is a close second!

Quote: WongBo

i hate to admit it, but i get the same sense of euphoria
on the new jersey parkway after exit 52
right when the bus goes over the bass river
and i spy the skyline of atlantic city for the first time.

LOL! Me too.

In fact, I marked that spot on my AC Points Of Interest Map!

Count me in. When we hit the AC expressway, it is like being home!

Quote: kewlj

The excitement and bright lights of the strip .

The lights, yeah, the excitement, not so much. To me
its just crowded. I remember when The Strip was just
a few hotels in the 70's, Downtown was the place to
be. Now the Strip is bumper to bumper traffic and
wall to wall pedestrians, I don't see the excitement
part. Downtown is still the place for me. The casinos
are close together, the food is good, the play is good.