Hoover Dam, Mob Museum, Back from Vegas
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canyonwalkerNon-Vegas Vegas Weekend Travelog #15
Back home - Mon, 17 Feb 2025, 10:30pm
We're back home from Las Vegas. For me it's been just over a week away from home. I left midday Monday a week ago for two days of sales kickoff followed by, well, another two days of (technical) sales kickoff. Then Hawk joined me and we spent three days doing totally non-Vegas stuff in the area.
The trip home this evening was easy, like flying between Las Vegas and San Jose should be. The flights are scheduled at about 1.5 hours, and ours tonight was on time. See, Southwest? You can do it!
The only minor snags we had were airport related. At LAS there was a massive line for shuttle buses from the rental car center to the terminal. All I can imagine is that they had a bunch of drivers out unexpectedly or a bunch of buses broken. Or maybe some budget-conscious ops manager scheduled for "quiet Monday evening" oblivious to the fact it was a holiday Monday making it the end of a three-day weekend. Then, at SJC, our checked bag took forever to arrive on the belt. Again, that might have been some fool not staffing enough people to handle flights arriving full.
As for what we did today in Las Vegas, we did two things. First we drove out to the Hoover Dam for a dam tour. It was... dam good. 😂 The tour guides all had fun cracking dam jokes, including asking us if we knew about the picture-taking policy.... "There is no dam policy!" they laughed. "So take all the dam pictures you want!" I'll have some of those pictures coming when I work my blog backlog this week.
The second thing we did today was tour the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. We've been meaning to go there the last few times we were in Vegas but never had the right opportunity. Today we made time for it. It was... not as revealing as I hoped it might be. It's mostly about the "golden age" of organized crime in the 1920s through 1950s. The reality of organized crime in the 21st century was tacked on as an afterthought in one display in the last room before the gift shop.
Back home - Mon, 17 Feb 2025, 10:30pm
We're back home from Las Vegas. For me it's been just over a week away from home. I left midday Monday a week ago for two days of sales kickoff followed by, well, another two days of (technical) sales kickoff. Then Hawk joined me and we spent three days doing totally non-Vegas stuff in the area.
The trip home this evening was easy, like flying between Las Vegas and San Jose should be. The flights are scheduled at about 1.5 hours, and ours tonight was on time. See, Southwest? You can do it!
The only minor snags we had were airport related. At LAS there was a massive line for shuttle buses from the rental car center to the terminal. All I can imagine is that they had a bunch of drivers out unexpectedly or a bunch of buses broken. Or maybe some budget-conscious ops manager scheduled for "quiet Monday evening" oblivious to the fact it was a holiday Monday making it the end of a three-day weekend. Then, at SJC, our checked bag took forever to arrive on the belt. Again, that might have been some fool not staffing enough people to handle flights arriving full.
As for what we did today in Las Vegas, we did two things. First we drove out to the Hoover Dam for a dam tour. It was... dam good. 😂 The tour guides all had fun cracking dam jokes, including asking us if we knew about the picture-taking policy.... "There is no dam policy!" they laughed. "So take all the dam pictures you want!" I'll have some of those pictures coming when I work my blog backlog this week.
The second thing we did today was tour the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. We've been meaning to go there the last few times we were in Vegas but never had the right opportunity. Today we made time for it. It was... not as revealing as I hoped it might be. It's mostly about the "golden age" of organized crime in the 1920s through 1950s. The reality of organized crime in the 21st century was tacked on as an afterthought in one display in the last room before the gift shop.
