I’m downbound and down, to use an old CB radio slang. I’m on the west side of the valley very near where the ground slopes sharply up toward the foothills, hence this steep decline on the 215 freeway.
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Hard to believe what a huge city this is. I had it in my mind that it was a few streets of casinos and hotels and that’s all. Never been there so didn’t realize.
The city was like that a long time ago, Anneli. It’s huge now. The valley is about 20 miles eat to west, and thirty miles north to south. This freeway, the 215, circles most of the valley. Here is a link that tells you much more. I lived in the sticks before coming here, a huge change of scenery!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Valley
Thanks for that, John.
Ya welcome! Las Vegas actually means The Meadows. Imagine this valley as it was many hundreds of years before we Europeans moved in, only the Native Americans living here. In some ways it must have been wonderful.
It would have been much harder to find a quart of milk.