Heh ... if only it hadn't been snowing for you, that would've made a
great April Fool's joke ... lol. BUT ... you should've sent that snow
my way! We did receive some hail last week, but no damage, thank
goodness.
I've been watching your pictures ... and you have some fine
photographs as usual, Ray. :)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 10:10 pm
Subject: [elky] OT: what ya see when ya walk out yer door.
I left home this morning on my way to the Rockabilly Weekend in Las
Vegas. I really didn't expect to see the Burb covered in snow and a
hail storm in progress.
I decided to "press on regardless."
I had a few errands to run and after standing in line at the post
office for about 15 minutes, I came back out to find another inch of
hail on the Burb. Bear in mind that I shave my head...and I didn't
have a hat. That stuff HURTS!!!
Well, eventually I got on the road and eventually got to Mesquite, Nv
where I met the lady who was to get me the complimentary room for the
next 3 nights. I was to meet her in the bar at a casino/hotel. I got
there, she recognized me from my description, (crazy old man with a
shaved head and a long white goatee) and she told me that her husband
was getting my room keys.
After a few minutes of visiting, she told me that she should probably
go check on her husband, because he has some trouble standing for long
periods of time (might have something to do with all the sprint car
crashes he had in his decades of racing.) So she asked me to watch
her stuff and off she went. Well, there I was, sitting on a bar stool
in an area away from home and I realized that there was a drink on the
bar in front of me. I had to laugh at myself. I had left my home
earlier with the intention to go photograph a car show/rockabilly
festival and here I was, sitting in said bare with a drink in front of
me. To make the story a little shorter than it could be, I'll just
mention that the drink might as well have been on another planet. For
me, at that moment, it didn't even exist. Wow. I'm very, very
grateful for that fact.
I'll move along real quick and mention that Jim H. called me and
mentioned the Automobile Collections at the Imperial Palace hotel and
casino in Vegas. I called them and they allow nuts like me to shoot
all the photos they want (some museums don't) and I realized that I
had another photo op presented to me. Ossum! I'll be there when they
open since there isn't much going on at the VLV fest.
Then I waked out of my motel room and saw something that had to be the
polar opposite of what I saw earlier in the day:
Palm trees behind a background of snowcapped mountains. And it was in
the mid 60s with a gentle breeze. And in the state where I feel most
comfortable, Nevada. Nirvana!!!
A very ossum beginning to my trip.
I'm gonna go take advantage of the casino's cheap dinner buffet, then
crash out so I can hit the museum in the morning.
More reports later.
r
