Joe in and around Las Vegas

Last month we drove from Vegas up to Sacramento, California. It was about a ten hour drive and rather pleasant. I like to drive, and the Nev...

A few weeks ago we visited the Smith Center several times. There were a few performances that we wanted to see, and they all fell in the sam...

Getting to be more like Springtime around here – weather report shows highs in the mid 80’s all week (that’s around 31-32c for you metricall...

I was driving up the street to my house the other day and looked up at the hills and realized how nice they look. Las Vegas is a big city al...

A few weeks ago we went down to Paris to have lunch out on the patio overlooking the Bellagio fountains. After having a very pleasant lunch ...

There is a difference between going to school and staying home. Going to school involves intense concentration on selection of the correct o...

Last night was a rather uneventful Halloween. Here in Vegas it was a typical fall evening, dark but calm with clear skies and a temperature ...

This weekend the Life is Beautiful Festival is taking over downtown. Vegas already hosts several other major events including the Electric D...

It’s Fall here in Las Vegas, as it is many other places. As usual we still have a lot of things going on. Last week the D downtown had its o...

Last month when E was out I wanted to prepare some things that she could help with because she likes to help out in the kitchen. I came acro...

Bouncing around the internet, Dooce pointed to this site Colossal Art that shows how to make giant bubbles. Very nicely done, and looks s...

Looks like it’s cat day here today. Up in Portland our granddaughter E picked out a kitten a few weeks ago. I understand it is a very friend...

I’ve been using our new kitchen and really enjoying the enhanced environment. However, I’ve been looking at the photos I’ve been taking of m...

When granddaughter E was visiting with us in August we went down to Circus Circus to hit the rides in the Adventure Dome. We stopped for lun...