Nevada legalized gambling in 1931 because they came to the decision that, for all their resources, the best way of making money was to sit there and just have Americans fly in and GIVE them their money.
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Nevada’s chief exports are agriculture, precious metals and venereal disease.
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Nevada’s state tree is the bristlecone pine… a long lived species of plant. Some have been found that were around during the crucifixion of Christ. They didn’t cause the crucifixion but they didn’t do much to stop it, either.
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Washoe the chimpanzee was raised in Reno, Nevada. He is best known for being the first chimp to use sign language and for writing most of the third and fourth seasons of the comedy series, The Facts of Life…
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Visible from space, Las Vegas, Nevada is the brightest city in the world which is a marked contrast to tourists who go there in the hopes of getting rich.
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Authorities estimate that there are around a thousand people living in the tunnel system under Las Vegas… although they concede that someone of them might be gophers in t-shirts…
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Nevada gets around seven inches of rain per year… even less than that if you measure in centimeters.
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Las Vegas was named after the meadows formed by artesian springs. Fortunately, those springs were pumped dry by 1962. Authorities jumped into action and are currently part-way through pumping the Colorado river dry, too.
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Nevada’s biggest crop is alfalfa, sold as cattle feed to states capable of supporting life.
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Nevada may have t-shirted gophers and trees that don’t want to get involved with crucifixions but, on the plus side, it also has the hottest spot in the United States: Death Valley. Death Valley is twice as deadly as Death Mountain and four times as deadly as Death Swamp which is also called “Florida”…
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
Bright lights, dim tourists. Definitely a money making combination…
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I actually did Vegas wrong. I’d go to bed early, wake up at four a. m. and play the slots until breakfast was available. The casino was basically deserted. Did the same thing at the reservation last year.
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I’m not a gambler, at all. We have lots of timeshares in Vegas but it’s a destination that’s never really interested me. I suppose we should go just to say we have but the tacky tourist stuff doesn’t hold much allure for me…
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I just do the penny slots so I never lose more than a few twenties each day. Sometimes I actually win. I won over a hundred once and took my brother and family out to dinner… So, Vegas gets your money one way or another…
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I always thought Death Valley was in California. Now that I know it doesn’t respect borders, I’m not sure what to think.
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A small part of Death Valley extends into Nevada so I’m technically correct. In reality, I made a mistake but I’ll never admit to it…
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I won’t call it a mistake. I learned something new. Plus I learned that the ground was once measured at 201º F. I don’t know about frying eggs, but you could almost boil water. You could at least make coffee.
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“Death Valley: Perfect for making coffee”
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I have family that lives in Vegas…I never understood it.
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😀 All factual.
Have you been?
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I met my brother in Las Vegas for a few days. The climate didn’t bother me because I spent three years in El Paso, so it was familiar…
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Seriously. I don’t understand the appeal of anywhere in Nevada.
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