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I must be honest. I have been overdoing it, a lot. My legs are like jelly. I have walked, rested in my room, got back up and walked some more. A couple of things about the Las Vegas strip I don’t like. One, they do not have any fucking benches on the strip. I did not see a single one between all my walking Thursday and yesterday. I did see a couple in the alley between the Linq and Margaritaville. That doesn’t count because it is a section that takes you off the strip. I guess they think that people are going in and out of the casinos so why bother. And I get that, kinda. But to get into some of the casinos is a pretty far walk. Give us a place to rest and recharge for a minute, dammit!

The second thing I don’t like is you can smoke in the casinos. Ugghhh!!! No offense smokers, but if you don’t smoke the smell is disgusting and overpowering to the senses. That truly threw me for a loop because I had no idea. I appreciate that the restaurants do not allow smoking. It gives a reprieve for the smoke. Now I did appreciate the cigar bar. It is a closed in area so you are not smelling the smoke. Next time I will take advantage of that. I don’t mind smoke in that setting because I am voluntarily exposing myself and partaking as well. I am not just walking around being bombarded with smoke in the face. Lol.

As I mention I did a good deal of walking and picture-taking. Here is few pics.

Ok last one.

Ok I lied, one more lol

The highlight of my day was ziplining at the FlyLinq at the Linq Hotel and Casino. They have morning and evening ziplining. I picked an evening time due to the heat and the sun, which are both not my fans. Also, I love lights so the evening time really worked for me. There was a few different ways to go across the zipline. You could go across sitting down facing frontwards or backwards. Or you could go across in the Superman pose, laying flat, frontwards or backwards as well. I chose the sitted position facing frontward this time. Next time I will do the Superman pose. Not sure if I will choose front or back. This was the one thing I definitely wanted to do this trip and I am happy that I did. I can cross it off my bucket list.

Now here is a bit of information for those who are interested in this attraction. All of your belongings need to be able to fit in a bag that they are going to attach to your person. I had an issue because my walking stick didn’t go down far enough to fit in the bag. I had to leave it with the people who checked me in. This also meant I had to walk all the way back to get it. Lol. Yea, I probably just looked drunk walking so I fit in with everyone. The other thing to note is once you have completed your ride there is not an elevator to take you back down. Lots of steps. Lots! You can of course purchase pics of yourself on the ride and the ones they take before the ride. I didn’t at the time but I may later off the website. Only if they are cute though 😂😂😂.

The other thing I would recommend is purchasing your tickets online. It saves you $5. Have you been to Vegas and ziplined on the FlyLinq? What way did you go down? Would you do it again? Please share your experience in the comments. Continue to be well and whole everyone.

I am bass ackward. I have a post labeled Vegas Baby Pt. 1 but I haven’t finished it yet. This one however is complete so I’m posting it first. Lol. Y’all know I’m different.

I am such a loner. Last night I headed out on the Las Vegas Strip all by myself. It may sound unsafe but it was not. It was fifty million people. And the majority of them were rude as hell. I do not use my walking stick in my day-to-day operations, but I always have it with me when I am traveling. You would think that when people see me walking with it that they would have a little courteous, not so much. They were walking in front of me, on top of me and one even stepped on the back of my shoe. I had to dig deep into my reserve of politeness not to whack a person with my stick. I really thought about it seriously. Actually I was itching to do it. Yeah, I am not even a violent person, but I have my limits. I can proudly say I did not hit anyone with my stick but I did elbow a couple of people.

I didn’t make it to far down the strip. I stopped at the Cosmopolitan to rest my legs. I had to weigh my options at that point. Walk down a little further or save the leg strength I just gained to make it back to my hotel. Commonsense prevailed, back to the hotel. I walked back by the Bellagio and purchased a beer from a street vendor. Watched the water show again. I took the escalator up. When it was time to take one down, I wasn’t so confident. Yea I was a little buzzed off that beer. Lol. Thank God for elevators! At the bottom it was a ledge for me to rest again. I caught this sight.

Yes that is a dog 😂😂😂.

I did get a couple of good shots of the strip and the water show.

I happen to run into Steve, the groom, and a couple of other guys back at Caesar’s. The ladies and gentlemen were partying separately. If I wasn’t being so antisocial, I could have hung out with the ladies. There is always tonight though. And of course the wedding, the reception and  the after party. The plan for today is solo strip walking again before it gets too hot. It is supposed to be 96 degrees today. Too fucking hot for me.

Vegas in its grandiose is beautiful but I am not cool with all this rudeness. I know times have changed but manners should be eternal. I pray that you continue to be well and whole.

I did mention my birthday road trip right before I went last year. Then I was delinquent and never came back with any pictures or talked about it in any way. Smh. Well I went to the doctor the other day, the phlebotomist who had suggested a location to visit, jogged my memory about the trip. We discussed the place and how it touched both of us. She shared an amazing story about what happened to her and it inspired me to share details about my trip.

So my birthday trip was October 29, 2018 to November 4, 2018. My first stops were in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I actually had never went up that way before. The main goal of my trip was to see autumn colors. I am a fall baby and it is my favorite season. The first thing I noticed was the speed limit became 75 mph. I was excited about that at first because less chance of me getting a ticket since I was already going 75+ mph anyway. But the thrill started to go away because it was legal. Lol. Rebel at heart here. Well I discovered that Michigan trees shed their leaves more in the middle of October. Not a lot of colors to see, but I did get some good pics.

My first stop was Mackinac Island. Now I don’t really know what I was expecting but it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. It was a lot of hotels, I mean a lot. And what was weird is it look like they didn’t set them up to have good views of the water. What is the point of being surrounded by water and not taking advantage of that🤷🏾? I seen the lighthouse and had to make my way there.

Mind you this was in late October and people were still going out on the water in that cold weather. The water was so clear and beautiful.

The reason I went up north was to see the Cross in the Woods Shrine, so I didn’t linger on Mackinac Island for long. The Cross in the Woods had me speechless. It was such a beautiful and serene atmosphere. It felt as if it was separated from everything. There wasn’t any noise from the street. I happened to be the only person there at that time as well.

The cross is located behind a church. There is mass outside a few times a day. The church building also has a gift shop/store. I made it to the cross too late to be able to go inside the gift shop. I was in my anti-social mode so I did not venture into the building at all. Next time I will go in and see what it is like. Sorry I am not able to share insight on the inside.

There was fake candles that you could light in observance of someone. It was required to give a donation to light a candle. It would stay lit for the day. Or you could go inside the gift shop and pay for a longer time period.

Now to the story from the phlebotomist. Her name is Becky. She said that as a child she had cancer and her treatments were not going well. It was hard to find a vein to give her the treatments she needed and it cause her to miss treatments. Her father decided to take her to The Cross in the Woods. After visiting the cross, Becky came home and was one of the first people to get a port. A port is installed in the chest for people with bad veins. It allows the doctors/nurses to draw blood and also administer medication. She said after the port was installed she never missed another treatment and was able to beat cancer’s ass. She truly believed that the visit to The Cross in the Woods is what helped her. I believe it as well. That was an awesome testimony.

I love to explore and learn new things and visit new places, but I will definitely return to The Cross in the Woods again. If you like to travel, I recommend for you to visit the cross at least once. It is an experience like none other. Once I stopped back home, I headed south. I made stops in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. I will discuss the rest of my birthday road trip over the next couple of posts.  I will also share some amazing pics that I took with my Galaxy Note 8. It has a great camera. Until we meet again, be well and whole.