LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS!

This is an historic week of sorts for the Iowa Park Leader where they stepped out of their comfort zone and into mine.

For the first time in our 52-year history, part of our issue is being produced not only out of county, but out of state. In other words ...

LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS!

As a non-dualistic thinker, I hate technology about 50 percent of the time, and love it the other half. This week I love it, because it is making it possible for me to work and be more than a thousand miles away with my daughter and her family .... In Las Vegas.

For the record, I’m not writing this from a casino, unless you would consider my kids and grandkids a jackpot, and I do. In which case, I’m in the highest payout casino in the world.

Now, had I proposed to the publisher that I take my work computer to the Bellagio and produce the newspaper from the Craps table, I don’t think it would be going down like this. As it stands, I am safely on government property - Nellis Air Force Base - and working in between Octonauts episodes and burping babies.

After the last year of quarantining, and what I call ‘working the Covid program,’ I decided that as soon as I was safely able to, I would go on more adventures - namely seeing my children and grandchildren for the first time in 15 months.

And the time has come. I am fully vaccinated, and I own masks, Lysol and a car. So I loaded up my computer and took off for a two-week working vacation in one of my first big adventures to date.

And this road trip turned out to be quite the adventure when somebody stabbed my tire with a screwdriver or something similarly rude at a hotel in Gallup, but that is a topic for another column. It did add to the adventure of a trip across four states, so I’ve got that going for me.

Whatever adventures you may go on, I hope you find your happy place with a maximum amount of bucket list items and a minimal number of screwdrivers in the tire.

I’m rooting for you.... from Las Vegas.