Lightening Impacts

By: HelloGod

Volume 1 No.9

Wednesday July 9, 2008

When I first arrived in Reno, it was a whole new world to me: All the lights, the slot machines, and the people. When I walked down the sidewalks and looked into the casinos, I was amazed. I started taking pictures of the casinos. This tall stout man walked up to me and said, “Sorry, you’re not allowed to take pictures of the casinos or inside the casinos.” Ok, I said, sorry. I put my camera away but the first five pictures I took earlier came out great. I know, you want to know if I gambled. I confess, I did walk into a casino and put a dime in a dime slot machine. Suddenly, a blue light went off with a siren and I couldn’t figure out what I did wrong. Great, I thought, now the cops will come and ask me what I did to the machine. Suddenly, all these dimes came out in the bottom tray. A man from the casino walked over and said congratulations you won. With relief I smiled. I’m not much of a gambler and never had been. I took my winnings and left. I had a few extra dollars for my trip I thought. I headed into California.

America is so vast and oh so beautiful. I explored new places and engaged new foods while on my trip around the country. It was time to head south into Arizona and on to Texas. The desert southwest is a bit brown and barren for me but I was thrilled to see huge cactus. One night there was an electrical storm and I was able to capture the event with my camera. Believe it or not, the lightening even came out in the photo. When I saw the lightening, I remember thinking, gee z God that was awesome. But I didn’t give God another thought.

I traveled into the southeast and it was humid. I marveled at the contrast of a rocky Pacific Ocean beach like up in Monterey or Carmel, California. Yet in Florida, it was flat, no rocks in the water, but a smooth beach. I even saw my first alligator. As I traveled up the east coast, I stopped in Virginia. I had my first experience with real bugs there. I’m not saying Virginia is a buggy state, but my experience with the bugs put me in a precarious position. After I gassed my car up and went to enter the entrance ramp to get back on the freeway, I felt something crawling up my leg.

Because I’m trying to keep my posts a bit shorter so you don’t get bored, you’ll have to tune in tomorrow to see what was crawling up my leg and what I did. I’ll just say, how I handled the situation is not what most people would do. See you tomorrow.

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