![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerNorth Las Vegas Travelog #1
North Las Vegas, NV - Fri, 17 Feb 2023, 6pm
Friday 2/17 was a day of shifting gears in Las Vegas. First, I stayed up too late into the wee hours of Friday morning, celebrating my President's Club win with other winners and a few well-wishers. I didn't get to bed until after 2. And I had 1-2 more drinks than optimal.
I felt the pain of those two choices Friday morning at 6:45am with my usual weekday alarm. I sat bolt upright in bed when the alarm rang, my head aching and my stomach roiling. I set a second alarm for 8 and tried going back to sleep, but it was no use. The sun was streaming through the gap I'd purposefully left in the curtains. I was wide awake.
I began the morning slowly, nibbling on a protein bar and drinking a few cups of water before taking a long (for me— more than 5 minutes) shower. I opened my work computer to catch up on email and Slack I'd purposefully let slide during SKO. Fortunately there was't much backlogged as almost everyone I work with was at SKO, too.
I had a meeting at 8:30 with one of my sales colleagues. She was at the hotel, too, but we agreed it was more convenient to meet via teleconference than try to find a quiet place to sit together. It was just as well because we were reviewing a list of her accounts. I had the spreadsheet up on my screen and I was giving feedback on various opportunities. She was listening and answering questions while slowly packing her bags to leave.
Speaking of leaving, Friday was also my day to leave... but in leaving Las Vegas I only went as far as North Las Vegas. Yes, that's a city, BTW. A quick look at Google Maps tells me North Las Vegas has a population over 250,000 and is the fourth largest city in Nevada!
I checked out of my room at the Wynn, got lunch at Grimaldi's (a pizzeria) across the street at the Palazzo, then Lyfted to the airport car rental center and picked up my rental car to drive out to North LV. Hawk and I are staying out here for the next 3 nights.
...Yes, Hawk is joining me this evening. She's flying in from SJC after a full workday. I'll pick her up at the airport around 9:30pm.
But as for this place out in North Las Vegas... wow, this is really on the edge of town. I picked it because the price was good, the amenities were what we wanted, and we don't care about being near any of the casinos or gaudy glitz of Las Vegas— in fact the farther away the better! But wow, this is out where the quiet housing subdivisions give way to miles and miles of warehouses and truck yards. We're out where the sidewalk literally ends.
North Las Vegas, NV - Fri, 17 Feb 2023, 6pm
Friday 2/17 was a day of shifting gears in Las Vegas. First, I stayed up too late into the wee hours of Friday morning, celebrating my President's Club win with other winners and a few well-wishers. I didn't get to bed until after 2. And I had 1-2 more drinks than optimal.
I felt the pain of those two choices Friday morning at 6:45am with my usual weekday alarm. I sat bolt upright in bed when the alarm rang, my head aching and my stomach roiling. I set a second alarm for 8 and tried going back to sleep, but it was no use. The sun was streaming through the gap I'd purposefully left in the curtains. I was wide awake.
I began the morning slowly, nibbling on a protein bar and drinking a few cups of water before taking a long (for me— more than 5 minutes) shower. I opened my work computer to catch up on email and Slack I'd purposefully let slide during SKO. Fortunately there was't much backlogged as almost everyone I work with was at SKO, too.
I had a meeting at 8:30 with one of my sales colleagues. She was at the hotel, too, but we agreed it was more convenient to meet via teleconference than try to find a quiet place to sit together. It was just as well because we were reviewing a list of her accounts. I had the spreadsheet up on my screen and I was giving feedback on various opportunities. She was listening and answering questions while slowly packing her bags to leave.
Speaking of leaving, Friday was also my day to leave... but in leaving Las Vegas I only went as far as North Las Vegas. Yes, that's a city, BTW. A quick look at Google Maps tells me North Las Vegas has a population over 250,000 and is the fourth largest city in Nevada!
I checked out of my room at the Wynn, got lunch at Grimaldi's (a pizzeria) across the street at the Palazzo, then Lyfted to the airport car rental center and picked up my rental car to drive out to North LV. Hawk and I are staying out here for the next 3 nights.
...Yes, Hawk is joining me this evening. She's flying in from SJC after a full workday. I'll pick her up at the airport around 9:30pm.
But as for this place out in North Las Vegas... wow, this is really on the edge of town. I picked it because the price was good, the amenities were what we wanted, and we don't care about being near any of the casinos or gaudy glitz of Las Vegas— in fact the farther away the better! But wow, this is out where the quiet housing subdivisions give way to miles and miles of warehouses and truck yards. We're out where the sidewalk literally ends.
