Category - Outdoors and Other Interests
Las Vegas Roller Derby
Anyone who knows me knows I’m constantly complaining about the lack of culture in Las Vegas. Every “community event” that I’ve gone to has been so sadly thrown together that I never go again. Even the long standing community event First Friday has lost all of its luster for me. I’d rather stay home and watch a movie than maneuver my way through all the hipsters to get to the two artists that I like.
A few months ago, a savior in the form of an awesome community event appeared: The Fabulous Sin City Roller Derby. Now this is the point where I should tell you what year it first started, how far they’ve come, et cetera… but I’m not going to do that. As far as I’m concerned they didn’t exist before I found them. They materialized out of a fog, because if they hadn’t, it would kill the magic.
My Grand Canyon Skywalk Tour
How much money do you take with you when you go out to the middle of the desert? $25? $50? If you happen to go out to Grand Canyon West and walk on the Grand Canyon Skywalk make sure you’ve saved up. Because donning little white booties and walking on thick glass with nothing between you and the 800 feet below — it’s going to cost you.
Like most people from Las Vegas would do, we just drove out there, and we were stopped and told there that we had to buy a package. Before that, we thought we could just drive right out to the Skywalk and pay there and walk, but that wasn’t the case. So after driving for a couple of hours, and then tacking on an extra twenty miles of dirt road, we got stopped and abruptly told to park. Then, in the middle of nowhere, is where we were informed we were on a Hualapai Indian Reservation. Because we were on their territory, it suddenly became a whole other game.
Las Vegas Bike Fest
This time each year, soon after the weather has changed and it’s just so damned nice you want to be outside all of the time, Las Vegas Bike Fest hits town and no matter where you go you see an unusual number of bikes on the prowl around town. I’ve never really gone down to the shows to check them out, although I’ve always admired a sexy-looking chopper, myself.
The Las Vegas Bike Fest is apparently a somewhat diffuse event, with different parts of it spread out over town.
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Kickball For Adults Rocks! – Las Vegas Hosts the Founders Cup
I screwed up last year. I slept on an opportunity to join a kickball team with some friends (some of which have since moved out of Vegas, as people tend to do, sometimes.) This year I didn’t hear anything about the league starting up amongst friends so, naturally, I did nothing.
For some, adults playing kickball might seem like a silly diversion from life in Sin City. Well, pfffft to that shit. Kickball was the second best physical education sport in school, second only to Dodgeball.
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