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Sweet Little Tucked-Away Las Vegas Cafe: Marche’ Bacchus

Las Vegas, Neighboring Cities, Nevada, Outdoors and Other Interests, Restaurants, Sin City, Vices, Weather
Posted January 24th, 2008 by Christopher - 4 comments

red wineI like to think I know a little bit about this town we call home – Las Vegas. The truth is, Las Vegas is big enough and has spread out enough that it’s really hard to keep up with all the new spots. There are hot spots and there are sweet spots. There are even best-kept-secret types of spots. There’s usually some overlap with those different types of places.

Last Friday my friend Dorothy, upon my suggesting that we drink fine wine until standing becomes challenging, said she has just the place.

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The Air Up Here…

Las Vegas, Nevada, Outdoors and Other Interests, Sin City, Stories, Weather
Posted September 17th, 2007 by Christopher - Add comment

Wow. Who the hell would want to be inside? I just got back from dinner about thirty minutes ago and of all the reasons why I call Las Vegas home, the air out here – tonight – is high up on the list. As I recently wrote, “Magical Weather Week” changes everything around here, weather-wise. The highs this week are the very low nineties, which might sound hot, but for the dry air, it’s great. You are still comfortable enough outside to go to the pool all day and then as the sun goes down, you just want to change into some jeans and stay outside..

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Las Vegas Magical Weather Week

Las Vegas, Nevada, Sin City, Weather
Posted September 7th, 2007 by Christopher - 2 comments

Las Vegas’ “Magical Weather Week” is a term I coined a few years back to describe this process that happens usually the second week of September or so where the weather just suddenly changes from summer hot to absolutely perfect. The daytime heat doesn’t get so hot; the warm nights begin to get more mild. It doesn’t happen gradually over a month or so. It happens suddenly – magically.

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Las Vegas Monsoon Season Is Officially Under Way!

Las Vegas, Nevada, Weather
Posted July 23rd, 2007 by Christopher - 3 comments

I was sitting here in my living room, replying to some emails and catching up on a few things online when I heard it: the sweet, violent, glorious sound of thunder!

I’ve written before about how the one thing I miss about living where I grew up in Texas is the weather. There is something so amazing and so emotionally invigorating about thunderstorms to me. Serious rains storms make me feel so relaxed and so at peace… You just don’t get a lot of them here in the desert. When it does rain, though, it makes it all the more a treat for me.

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