Reply #16: I've only been to Vegas once.

[livvy]

I don't think I'd ever go back. The lights and hotels and the people watching were great, but it was the environmental aspect I just couldn't get over.

We drove in from the surrounding area, so I knew how dry it was. We had driven through a part of a reservation on our trip where there was barely enough green to keep a single goat alive. Yet, walking down the streets of Vegas we found all these wide open doorways, with air-conditioned air blasting out into the heat. Then all the misters found everywhere. I couldn't get over the waste of resources that the city didn't even have. Green lawns, trees, flowers. I was really taken aback.

I'm not a gambler, but don't have any problem with people who enjoy it. One thought kept nagging at me though. How many of these people really couldn't afford to lose, but just couldn't help themselves?

Both days I was there, I was really bothered by both issues, but the environmental thing really got to me the most.