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[randomdreams]

Las Vegas is weird.
It's a very windy weird, this weekend. It wasn't quite hot, but wowie was it gusty.
We went on an Ingress scavenger hunt, associated with the GoRuck tradition, albeit with only a little bit of pushups and scrabbling around under/over things. Mostly we hiked, looking for things. We didn't have the best communication with our team, but we managed to make it work out. Scavenger hunt items were things like cleaning up trash, finding a veteran and talking to the vet about war experiences. Ours told us a dirty joke instead.
I found this for basefinder, near the Las Vegas Central Library.


I had grilled unicorn cheese sandwich for lunch before the hunt. Somehow I expected it would just be white, yellow, and orange. Oh, no, they went all-out, because it's Las Vegas.


They have a ton of weird cool public art.

(This appeared to actually be drivable.)



We walked over to an art district about 2km from downtown. There were roughly two art galleries there. It appears to have been larger and more interesting at some point in the recent past. But the one gallery that was open was fun to look around in.

Comments

[sistawendy]

I can't help but wonder how much cross-pollination there is between the Vegas art scene and Burning Man. That vehicle in particular looked awfully playaesque.

[basefinder]

Wow, another friend on LJ just got back from a Vegas trip also.

The thin-shell structure in your photo (thanks!) is at the sign museum. It used to be the entryway for a hotel!

The artwork reminds me of the newly-installed rocket (a fanciful, shiny metal art piece) in front of the Lowry Beer Garden (just a stones throw from the B-52 in front of W.O.T.R. museum).

[amaebi]

Las Vegas is really weird.

I think your scavenger-list veteran was a gracious human to tell you a dirty joke. I bet some people got decked.

[ivy]

I love the unicorn grilled cheese; that's fantastic. [giggling] Did the sprinkles add to the flavor?