Casinos, Casinos Everywhere!
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (77650)
United States
August 9, 2025 10:39pm CST
How do you know you’re in Nevada? When casinos are as ubiquitous as Dollar General Stores back home. 
Casinos, casinos everywhere!!! The Casa Blanca was the first one I saw, in Mesquite, Nevada, so I stopped and took a picture of it. It has that “maybe we can make people think this is Jimmy Buffett-related by sticking a parrot on the logo” look, doesn’t it? 
(Since casa blanca is Spanish for “white house,” they might alienate some people politically with that name, too.)
After snapping some photos of the landscape that only looks different from Arizona’s because of the casinos (or the bank name, Nevada State Bank [always good to have a bank near a casino!]), I hunted down some food and enjoyed a leisurely snack of watermelon in the desert.
I didn’t stay too long in Nevada, but now there are only four states that I haven’t been kicked out of/been to: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska.
Vegas will have to wait for another time (as I told my best friend, the LAST place I want to be is Las Vegas on a Saturday night!), but Nevada has been conquered.
The photos are the Casa Blanca Casino and the Nevada State Bank in a typical Nevada desert setting.
Casinos, casinos everywhere!!! The Casa Blanca was the first one I saw, in Mesquite, Nevada, so I stopped and took a picture of it. It has that “maybe we can make people think this is Jimmy Buffett-related by sticking a parrot on the logo” look, doesn’t it? (Since casa blanca is Spanish for “white house,” they might alienate some people politically with that name, too.)
After snapping some photos of the landscape that only looks different from Arizona’s because of the casinos (or the bank name, Nevada State Bank [always good to have a bank near a casino!]), I hunted down some food and enjoyed a leisurely snack of watermelon in the desert.
I didn’t stay too long in Nevada, but now there are only four states that I haven’t been kicked out of/been to: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska.
Vegas will have to wait for another time (as I told my best friend, the LAST place I want to be is Las Vegas on a Saturday night!), but Nevada has been conquered.
The photos are the Casa Blanca Casino and the Nevada State Bank in a typical Nevada desert setting.4 people like this
4 responses
@allknowing (151373)
• India
3h
Apart from Casinos Las Vegas is a well laid out State. Who can forget Fremont Street with dazzling sky scenes the whole night through. It is a street loaded with entertainment.
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@FourWalls (77650)
• United States
3h
I’m not a gambler, and with the cookie-cutter casinos now as opposed to the unique ones when Vegas started, I don’t see a reason to go.
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@FourWalls (77650)
• United States
3h
It’s no big deal to me that I didn’t make it to Vegas. I honestly would like to see the 1 October Memorial, and that’s it for Vegas. All the cheesy stuff that was there in the 50s and 60s is gone.
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@jstory07 (145150)
• Roseburg, Oregon
3h
@FourWalls I have not been in a long time. It has been 33 years.
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@rebelann (114369)
• El Paso, Texas
2h
Well, Nevada is flatter than AZ plus AZ has all those cacti most other desert states don't.
Back in the 1980s we'd go through phoenix to get to las vegas and once we crossed hoover damn it was the same kinda desert as we have here in southwest TX & NM, but phoenix had all those beautiful cacti.
Wait til you see Utah, it's a whole lot different as far as deserts go, they have beautiful rock formations.
