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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Stokes Castle Triptych

We at CatSynth do like things that come in three 🙂

This is an exterior detail of Stokes Castle in Austin, Nevada. It’s a ruin of a castle tower modeled after a similar one in Europe.

A wider shot of Stokes Castle appears about midway through our Episode 500 video (published yesterday).

Fun with Highways: Spaghetti Bowl (Las Vegas)

We’ve had the Mixing Bowl (DC), the Orange Crush, the Can of Worms, so why not the Spaghetti Bowl?

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US_95I-515_(NV)The interchange connects I-15, one the major north-south highways in the western U.S., with US 93, US 95 and I-515, which head eastward into downtown Las Vegas.  It was reconstructed in the late 1990s into the version we see in the above photo.

I have actually not spent much time in Las Vegas, and none of that time was on a highway in in a car.  Indeed, I had a miserable experience about 12 years along the strip (South Las Vegas Boulevard).  While I won’t get into the details of that trip, it did prevent me from exploring more of the actual city and what it has to offer.  I would be willing to give it another chance, especially if I could also explore out into the desert.