Las Vegas is back. Here s where to go to avoid crowds.
Dennis Rudner
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If you are planning on taking a trip to Las Vegas anytime soon, here are some places to visit that many tourists don t know about.John Locher/AP
After a year of being cooped up, nobody really needs extra motivation to get out and stretch their legs.
Most of us are done pretending to enjoy those excruciatingly painful workouts. We’re beyond over putting together 500-piece puzzles, only to find we’re missing a couple of pieces. And what about that online learning class you subscribed to so you could be more well-rounded but forgot to cancel and now have been charged a couple of hundred bucks?
The 5-acre lot next to Craig McVeay’s house is empty, except for the sand, rock and sagebrush common in Pahrump, Nevada. The 57-year-old Homeland Security retiree takes a few articles of clothing from a box destined for Goodwill and scatters them across the open space one afternoon.
He lays a pair of jeans out on the ground, places hats and shirts around the brush. The items look discarded, remnants, or clues one might look for if they were combing the wilderness for a body.
McVeay goes back into his house, flies two drones over the lot and runs the footage on his computer equipped with software that automatically analyzes the imagery. It’s work that, up to this point, he has been doing manually. “And it hit on every piece of clothing that I put out,” McVeay told me over the phone, a little incredulous. “It was,” he pauses for a moment, “it was pretty neat.”
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If you can’t have a huge wedding during the coronavirus pandemic, you might as well go the opposite direction and get married in an abandoned town.
In fact, that’s what people in the Las Vegas area appear to be doing, according to a local wedding tour and photography business.
On Thursday, Scenic Las Vegas Weddings reported that Nelson’s Ghost Town which is about an hour outside of Las Vegas has seen a huge increase in weddings during the pandemic.
Though Nelson was abandoned by prospectors and miners decades ago, the town has become a popular tourist destination and more recently, a popular spot for COVID-19 weddings because of a new open-air chapel, according to Scenic Las Vegas Weddings.