Four Cherry Trees

 

Our house is less than a six-hour drive from Las Vegas, and we have visited "Sin City" many times. But until this year, we never knew the famous Las Vegas Boulevard – The Strip – isn’t actually inside the city limits of Las Vegas. On average, more than 41 million people visit Las Vegas every year. That number was reduced by more than half in 2020. The hotels, casinos, restaurants, shows and resorts are still gradually working their way back to pre-pandemic levels. The first thing you see as you enter the Las Vegas valley from the north is The Stratosphere. At 1,149 feet, this observation tower/entertainment complex is the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi. When gambling was made legal here in 1931, the rest of the country was outraged and threatened to revoke Nevada’s statehood. (That never happened.) Today, there are forms of legalized gambling in forty-eight of the fifty states.