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\u201cVegas Baby, Vegas\u201d<\/p>\n
-Trent and Mikey, Swingers<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m in Vegas now with Ana on day two of our little roadtrip (Vegas, L.A., and up the CA coast). It has been very lovely, but definitly too much driving. Tonight we\u2019re visiting Adam, an old classmate of my sister and hunting-partner of my father, in Vegas. He\u2019ll take us out and show us the town \ud83d\ude42 (I\u2019ve already lost a dollar gambling, my greatest losses thus far in life!) We saw the Venitian Hotel and its fake indoor \u2018Venice\u2019 (interesting). <\/p>\n
Tomorrow we\u2019re off to Los Angeles to see my sister; hopefully to the Getty and to Ashes and Snow<\/em> (see below). Then, Friday we\u2019ll take off up the coast with no set plans, hoping to arive back in Missoula Sunday. So you won\u2019t see much blogging for me \u2019till then, and probably not much of substance for yet another week when Ana is (sadly) heading back to Spain. (more soon)<\/p>\n
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\u201cVegas Baby, Vegas\u201d -Trent and Mikey, Swingers I\u2019m in Vegas now with Ana on day two of our little roadtrip (Vegas, L.A., and up the CA coast). It has been very lovely, but definitly too much driving. Tonight we\u2019re visiting Adam, an old classmate of my sister and hunting-partner of my father, in Vegas. He\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLife: In Las Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""Vegas Baby, Vegas"-Trent and Mikey, SwingersI'm in Vegas now with Ana on day two of our little roadtrip (Vegas, L.A., and up the CA coast). 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