"I live in a city with two personalities. It's like getting to know two twin brothers, one who is an extreme extrovert, one who is a real introvert. Everyone gets to know the extrovert at the party, while the introvert gets eclipsed and is mostly ignored by the rest of the world.
Most people don't realize that the Strip is just one crazy street and that there's a whole other, nuanced, quieter dimension to discover in the city where I live.
I love the hidden, introverted side of Las Vegas. From the sound of laughter from children at the local neighborhood schoolgrounds, to the quiet, winged beauty of a egrets and herons taking off into the sky at Clark County Wetlands Park, to the multidimensional present and past history of the local valley as showcased at Springs Preserve to the ancient desert secrets to be learned at Red Rock Canyon to the last surviving farm/orchard in the area... and so much more.
I appreciate my city's quieter, more introspective side that the tourists on the Strip would never understand, satisfied that I still have much to discover and learn from the many hidden, more thoughtful aspects of this multidimensional desert valley.
I also want to let everyone know that this city also features a future real-life spaceport. (I wish I had an "in" with that company so I could hang out for a day with their engineers.)
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