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After hours in traffic on the strip we check into our new digs with a firm resolve to leave the car behind when we go out again. Our room here is $54 for the three of us. While there isn’t much attention to the decor (look at the paintings), we have a kitchenette with a…

We head east across town to the Katherine Gianclis Park for the Arts, and get primed for the spectacles to come in the Sociometry Fair.

This is the buffet at the Rio that was recommended to Pete by local *IS* agents. We pay the computer $22.99 apiece, then wait like cattle to be led to the trough. It’s the biggest feeding frenzy I’ve ever seen, with something like 1200 items, all gourmet. Ann and I spend 10 minutes surveying everything…

This downtown hotel is much nicer than I was expecting for $25. We haul our bags through about 1/4 mile of casino to check in, then back again. It’s a bit windy and looks like rain, otherwise we’d probably head out to the rooftop pool & spa. I also notice that the building houses the…

When we did this drive a few weeks ago in the moving truck it was too awkward to stop at the view areas, but I vowed to do so when we returned. It proves well worth the trouble – the huge San Rafael swell provides miles of beautiful skyward-thrusting Navajo sandstone. We appreciate having Anne…

We stop at the Glenwood Springs Lodge to try out their giant spring-warmed pool. It’s really nice, but pretty steep at $11 for admission. I was looking forward to trying out the water slides too, but they were closed. Instead Ann leads us in some water arobics. Feels great after driving all day.

We hit the road for Vegas, via our storage locker in Denver, with my old friend Anne Marie Powell in the back seat. On the way to Ft. Collins we pass this brush fire, started by a resident burning grass, that consumed a home before being controlled by firefighters.

What a loud, bawdy, frollicking Shakespearean romp! Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are great. Because everything is so exaggerated you hardly notice the Elizabethan English. I guess a Shakespeare afficionado might consider this a “dumbing down” of the bard’s work, but I loved it. For once I could at least tell when I had missed…