LAS VEGAS DAY ELEVEN November 21, 2020
Today was another move day. Tired of the Tucson apartment, I had changed the reservation to a shorter time. Then to reserve a condo in Vegas, for the remaining ten days. Now it was to move into the chosen apartment, which looked deluxe and affordable.
Getting my things out of the condo, by check out time, I then motored to check out the new apartment. Passing under the new city arch, I saw that the new apartment looked good. Then to bag Lone Mountain 5X. To kill time before the 3 p.m. check in, and then going for diet soda, at a fast food, the ones that I went to didn’t do dine-in.
Doing a search then for ramen, they also didn’t do dine-in. Nearby was a Thai restaurant, and they allowed for dine-in. So I ordered crispy pork belly fried rice. Okay, but not gourmet.
I had checked out the new place before hiking, and now beelining there, it was past check-in time. I had passed under the Arch for a second time. I had trouble getting in the apartment, and nobody knew how to open the door lock. The host had given me the old passcode, and on e-mailing them, I got the correct new code. They had reset after the former renters had moved out.
Then getting my things into the apartment, it was truly deluxe and the best place that I ever rented. To enable the computer and back up, and it had 5G for the new phone that I bought yesterday. Taking a shower after set-up, it’s to be here for a longer time. With now most all of my things into the new place, I got a message from the former hosts. They wondered what happened to the key they gave me, for the laundry room, so I’d return it.
Lucky I wasn’t now far away, so I gave it back on going to the nearby old place. Then to run my dash cams on a drive down the Strip at night. Making a U at about the last good casino on the south end, I captured the drive, as traffic allowed. The Vegas Arch had just opened, so I had to motor underneath it for my third time. There was construction, but that didn’t stop anybody, and I passed under the Arch with photos and dash cam video.
Then back to the new apartment, with homeless people outside in the alley. I offered to buy them beer, and said that I had been in the same boat. When after UCB, I was depressed, so family threw me out of the house. Taking a sleeping bag, I camped outside our home on the sidewalk. I tried to sleep, on the sidewalk, as homeless people do nowadays. I had $2 left in my bank account, as I spent it all on books, and entertainment.
Family relented, so I got back in the house. I was in my sleeping bag on the sidewalk for hours, so I got to see how homeless people feel nowadays. No such thing as any tent city then, but it was my idea to sleep on the sidewalk. Homeless people started then to do the same thing. With modern outdoor gear, you can be comfortable sleeping on the street.
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