"Mia, where are you ?"

so there i was in las vegas, waiting for mia's flight, it was supposed to come in from houston at 9pm, however, mia was late getting to the airport and missed the plane. now i didnt know this yet so here i am hanging out on the strip trying not to get too drunk and half ass looking for hookers, hey, its vegas... i lived in vegas back in the 90's, i left just as the excess was beginning, the mirage was the bad ass casino at the time, the mgm and treasure island were going up , i didnt go back for 12 years. in 07 i drove out to california to meet jeff in carlsbad, he got us a condo to kick back in for a few days, vegas had changed... when i left there were about 800,000 people in the valley, when i returned there were over 2,000,000. i couldnt believe how far out they had built, there are houses freakin every where, from mountain to mountian and one end of the valley to the other, vegas was kind of a nasty place before, now its completely vial.
when i got to the airport mia's sister called me, i had a message to go to the courtesy phone, thats when i found out for sure that mia missed her flight and wouldnt be there for another hour or so, hhmm, back to half ass looking for hookers, and lots of starbucks...

thats a picture of mia on her new road bike, thats some where out side of houston, hard to believe there is a nice quiet place like that close to such a huge place, there are something like 6,000,000 people living in the houston area. i may have to find out for myself what houston is like as i cant find work and there is work in houston, yes i may be going to texas for a minute.

anyway, mia finally made it to las vegas and we got some food quick like then hit the freeway and screamed north on I-15...

not even half of those high rise buildings existed 15 years ago, and they are still building that crazy city center project, i will try to find a pic of it and post it, has anyone seen that bridge they are building at hoover damn ? i'll try to find pics of that beast also, no idea how they will keep base jumpers of that thing...

my friend mia, thats when she rode the ms150 this year. mia is one of my two best friends in this world, we started riding in 2001 but have been friends since 1989. we were at the moab fat tire fest in 2001 and she was run over by some stupid fuck in a toyota truck, she really hasnt mountain biked since then, and when she moved to houston she gave up riding all together, well she recently was bitten again and promptly went out and bought a new trek madone, wait a go girl...