The one thing that he wanted to do with me while we were in Las Vegas was to walk the strip. He chose Freemont Street for our Saturday after dinner entertainment. My guidebook says that Freemont Street is the “second most famous street scene, following the Las Vegas Strip.
Suspended 90 feet above Freemont Street is Viva Vision:
the world’s largest video screen running 1,375 feet long and 90 feet wide, with
16.4 million brilliant pixels! They had some mind-blowing visuals going on
while we were there. These pictures do not do it justice.
In addition to the giant video screen, they also have a zipline: called The Zoomline, it takes off more than 10 storied up (114 feet) and whisks flyers 1,750 feet to a landing platform at the city’s most historic casino, Golden Gate. The upper Zoomline provides even more thrills by sending flyers prone, or “superhero-style,” for an unprecedented view of the party that never ends at Fremont Street Experience. Flyers travel down the zip lines at up to 40 miles per hour.
The day that we were there just happened to have free concerts at pretty much every intersection, blasting loudly over the cacophony of the gazillion people crowded onto the street and spilling out of the casinos. The zipline had people zooming overhead. The individual street performers were displaying their talents. Artists had their easels set up for portraits. There were people dressed up in all manner of costumes roaming the street. There were even girls with practically nothing on standing around in the middle of the street (I have absolutely no idea why they would do that).
It was truly a bizarre experience.
Vegas IS bizarre!
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