The Mob, Vegas, and Tea

Joan Didion once wrote about Las Vegas, calling it:
"the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification, a place the tone of which is set by mobsters and call girls and ladies' room attendants with amyl nitrite poppers in their uniform pockets."

Bizarre and beautiful, no doubt. Vegas keeps people coming back by stunning them with the amount of ways one can have a good time.

Sometimes I look back and wonder if what she describes is the same town I grew up in. To me, as a child, it was always just a peaceful piece of desert land.