Visit Las Vegas
Amanda's sister moved to Baker when her husband took a heavy equipment job at the Mojave national preserve. Baker is a gas station in the desert between Los Angeles and Los Vegas. The national preserve is nice but the desert along the highway is littered with trash, dead wildlife, and innumerable scorch marks from cars that had burned on the journey between those two cities. We passed several wrecks on the drive over including one with a dead body stretched out in the median while first responders stood around chatting.
Las Vegas is the destination for gamblers in the US - especially for people along the west coast. The desert city is marketed as a place to explore your most decadent desires and capitalist dreams. Though I've only been to the city once in my life (for an electronics conference) I know people that go several times a year to gamble and stay at the hotels. It's marketed as an adult playground and the amount of money on display is a testament to how much people lose at the casinos.
When we stopped for gas before driving into the preserve to do a hike, I picked up this free guide to Las Vegas and as we drove into the park I read sections out loud. The pamphlet is printed on cheap paper and contains a map and phone numbers for services in the city as well as short highlights of places and people written by what must be the most jaded ad copy writer in the world.
A guide on how much to tip the people that help you throughout the day.
This adults-only playground has everything an adult could want.
There's Mega Bar, a 165-foot-long-bar on Circa's first floor; Circa Bar a vibrant outdoor bar along the famed Fremont street experience, Overhang Bar, overlooking the casino's massive sports book; Vegas Vickie's, an upscale lobby bar starring one of the city's most beloved neon signs, and Legacy Club a rooftop lounge paying tribute to the founding fathers of Vegas.
As for the adults-only fun, Circa sports Stadium Swim, a year round pool experience that includes six pools across three levels, multiple swim-up bars, private cabanas, selfie walls, and an impressive 40 foot HD television screen.
If fun isn't what you're looking for, feel free to walk a mile long strip mall containing a bunch of brand name clothing retailers, jewelry, skin care, and fast food joints which I won't bother to actually list here.
Finally, there are ads for the various shooting ranges which I leave here without comment.
Machine Guns Vegas is a perfect way to add some vacation to your vacation. With more than 40 firearms options and packages to choose from give that trigger finger some exercise.
If it's you and your boo, try out the only package where the guns can be shot as a team, The Bonnie & Clyde package. Guns include the sawed-off shotgun, Colt commando automatic rifle, and the 1911 pistol. Is it a date with your ladies? Try the Femme Fatale Experience - three firearms, the M4, MP5, and Glock 17 all colored pink.
even your kids (aged 10-17) can indulge in the Kid Experience and test their skills with an M4 and the Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22.
For the gamers out there, the 45-minute Gamers Experience package puts those video game guns in your hands for some target practice. Enjoy popping off some rounds with the Desert Eagle handgun, AK-47, M4, and the AR-10 sniper rifle. For those that really want to indulge their firearm draems, The Compound Experience is the largest package - guests are taken to the VIP area to fire off eight different firearms; M60, 1919, M249 SAW, Saiga, Noisy Cricket, Draco, MP4, and the Desert Eagle .50AE.
for possibly one of the coolest shooting experiences boko the Door Gunner. Up to three guests are taken up in a helicopter to shoot a belt-fed machine gun out of the chopper.
Machine Guns Vegas also offers wedding experiences where the bridge and groom can pull the trigger of a Glock 17 right after saying their vows in front of family and friends.
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