Weeknotes 26-39: Parks and Vegas
Hiiiiiii not a real post this week since I need to save most of it for a Real trip post!!
Rapid-fire trip summary:
- SLC is a fascinating city from what little of it I saw. Really beautiful views of the mountains and then shockingly flat down the grid-aligned streets
- Lots of great food, Red Iguana and Perch Coffee in SLC, Communal in Provo
- Kind of crazy how gorgeous the landscapes are, so, so different from the northeast, wide expanses of rock and low vegetation
- Listening to Miles Davis In a Silent Way while driving into Arches was a huge vibe (KZMU 106.7, Moab community radio)
- Crazy being able to walk around at 10pm and still be able to see just on moonlight alone
- “This would look so much better with a data center here”
- Primitive trail ruled, super super fun, such a vibe walking around on barely marked trails with maybe five other groups total
- Canyonlands looked fake, there were some vistas that looked like a matte painting from a movie set
- Every vacation needs an onsen, we need more onsens in the US
- I’m totally Swig-pilled, we need a Swig in Boston
- Primetime (2026), good movie!
- Vegas public transport is so, so awful
- IIDX 34 ZINRAI is pretty fun, I had 158 credits on one of my Round1 cards so I got to play for a couple hours for free :3c
- Wild how the Vegas strip is just Disneyland for drunk adults
- Also wild how everything is 2x more expensive than normal on the strip
- Also also wild how there’s no banks and ATMs have a 15+ dollar fee on the strip
- Vegas is easily the most pedestrian hostile area I’ve ever been in, miserable experience to walk around anywhere, sidewalks being closed so you need to cross the street despite there being 10 lanes of road for cars
- Tech house needs to be stopped
- Say what you will about Vegas nightclubs, the light setup at Omnia was kinda incredible
- Saw Krysten Ritter at brunch???????
- Kinda can’t imagine ever willingly going back to Vegas, or if I did I would mostly stick to old Vegas? Though sad we didn’t actually get to see most of Omegamart
- Really glad that all of John’s friends are cool and I got along with all of them n_n excited for the wedding next month!!!
Okay thank you for reading, I will write a real post with photos soon, please look forward to it 🙇
Things I’ve been into this week!!!
- Jane Remover - Beauty Sleep: huuuuuuuuge
- Fiorucci made me Hardcore
- Heterotopia (space)
- HEAVEN’S GATE CREW @ ULTRA JAPAN 2026: wow i didn’t know tokyo sims dj’ed