Return Trip has begun
Well, I did not write anything yesterday, because we had a very busy day. I visited several attractions in Las Vegas, NV and it would take weeks to see them all. The city is really unreal in all it has to offer and it is very hard to describe. It seems as if Las Vegas is the city were everyone can forget reality . . . One of the places I visited yesterday was the Liberace Museum. Not everyone may remember the ‘very odd’ piano player, who dressed in fancy costumes and had a taste for the unusual. (. . . excessive . . . I call it . . . Rolls Royce with mirror pieces on them, costumes made out of feathers and the list goes on). Most of his career he played at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas and he earned in 1951 as much as $1,500 per week. - which was at that time the highest paid performance in Las Vegas)
Anyway, Liberace died in 1987 of HIV in Palm Springs, FL. as a very faithful Catholic Christian. He had asked to sell all of his belongings, except the pieces that are in this museum. All proceeds from the sale and the museum went/go to a foundation with the objective to award scholarships for arts and music students around the country.
The museum is located way off the main strip in Las Vegas, Nevada and Liberaci had asked in his last will NOT to locate the museum on the Ls Vegas Strip. Now, the admission is $12.50 for adults and the exhibit is separated by two buildings located in a strip mall. (Very odd!!) Is it worth going? Not really, and my assessment is that the museum will die a slow death because of the location of the museum and because the younger generation has no clue who Liberaci was.
I also went to the original Las Vegas (Freemont) where everything got started . . . and to tell you the truth, most of that place is a run down part of Las Vegas. This part of the city looks like Havana/Cuba under Batista . . . And where malls took over the shopping habit in any other town in America, here the Las Vegas Strip took over the gambling and revenue from the downtown.
Is it worth going? I think so, just to see the history of the town. (I read up a lot of the history of Las Vegas and it truly comes alive if you visit) And by the way . . . food is very cheap in any of the casinos there.
When I left Las Vegas today (I decided to take St. Rd. 93 and then I-40) it started out as a warm day, but then changed soon into a fairly cold day in the mountains. I had originally planned to go I-70 through the Rocky Mountains, but . . . I heard that snow fell in Denver so I decided to go the Southern Route.
On my way though the mountains I met a German (Mr and Mrs Klaus Kueffer) couple that visited the USA and Klaus is a BMW rider. Last year he went to Turkey from Germany and he invited me to come over to Germany, because he had a motorcycle trip planned to go to Russia next year. . . something to think about!
I am right now in Bellemont, AZ . . . had an oil change done at the local HD dealer and I am doing some laundry, since I could do only limit laundry in Vegas (EXPENSIVE!!)
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Thought of the Day:
When you leave one place to go to the next . . . don’t look back . . . just keep the memories
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Total miles: 2,646 miles
Miles today: 306 miles
85 degrees to 58 degrees
Gas: $18.79
Anyway, Liberace died in 1987 of HIV in Palm Springs, FL. as a very faithful Catholic Christian. He had asked to sell all of his belongings, except the pieces that are in this museum. All proceeds from the sale and the museum went/go to a foundation with the objective to award scholarships for arts and music students around the country.
The museum is located way off the main strip in Las Vegas, Nevada and Liberaci had asked in his last will NOT to locate the museum on the Ls Vegas Strip. Now, the admission is $12.50 for adults and the exhibit is separated by two buildings located in a strip mall. (Very odd!!) Is it worth going? Not really, and my assessment is that the museum will die a slow death because of the location of the museum and because the younger generation has no clue who Liberaci was.
I also went to the original Las Vegas (Freemont) where everything got started . . . and to tell you the truth, most of that place is a run down part of Las Vegas. This part of the city looks like Havana/Cuba under Batista . . . And where malls took over the shopping habit in any other town in America, here the Las Vegas Strip took over the gambling and revenue from the downtown.
Is it worth going? I think so, just to see the history of the town. (I read up a lot of the history of Las Vegas and it truly comes alive if you visit) And by the way . . . food is very cheap in any of the casinos there.
When I left Las Vegas today (I decided to take St. Rd. 93 and then I-40) it started out as a warm day, but then changed soon into a fairly cold day in the mountains. I had originally planned to go I-70 through the Rocky Mountains, but . . . I heard that snow fell in Denver so I decided to go the Southern Route.
On my way though the mountains I met a German (Mr and Mrs Klaus Kueffer) couple that visited the USA and Klaus is a BMW rider. Last year he went to Turkey from Germany and he invited me to come over to Germany, because he had a motorcycle trip planned to go to Russia next year. . . something to think about!
I am right now in Bellemont, AZ . . . had an oil change done at the local HD dealer and I am doing some laundry, since I could do only limit laundry in Vegas (EXPENSIVE!!)_______________
Thought of the Day:
When you leave one place to go to the next . . . don’t look back . . . just keep the memories
_______________
Total miles: 2,646 miles
Miles today: 306 miles
85 degrees to 58 degrees
Gas: $18.79
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