{"id":340,"date":"2012-06-10T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2019-10-12T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T02:44:10","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! \u00a0It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve updated this blog. \u00a0So, what have I been up to&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ufc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-341\" title=\"ufc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ufc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ufc.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ufc-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UFC Training Center where &#8220;TUF&#8221; is shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other then putting up with winter, the big event was a return trip to Vegas! \u00a0After a great time there in October, I wanted to go back and see a few more places I didn&#8217;t have time to see the first time. \u00a0First was the UFC training center. \u00a0Now finding the center is a bit of a chore since its address is not public. \u00a0However, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.munzee.com\/m\/Clay4\/51\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Munzee<\/a>\u00a0there so once the cords were in my GPS, it took me right to the<br \/>\nplace.<\/p>\n<p>Other places included the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neonmuseum.org\/the-collection\/neon-boneyard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neon Museum Boneyard<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarkcountynv.gov\/Depts\/parks\/Pages\/clark-county-museum.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clark County Museum<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalatomictestingmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atomic Testing Museum<\/a>\u00a0and, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinballmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pinball Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many pictures were taken at the boneyard and Clark County Museum. \u00a0I&#8217;ve uploaded these to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.smugmug.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smugmug site<\/a>\u00a0in a set called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/icenrye.smugmug.com\/Travel\/Vegas-2012\/21814564_2b63mM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegas 2012<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/boneyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-347 \" title=\"boneyard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icenrye.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/boneyard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/boneyard.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/boneyard-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Neon Boneyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One other place I visited was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discountfirearmsinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Discount Firearms and Ammo<\/a>. \u00a0Originally, I wanted to visit another popular gun store to try some machine guns, however after reading some less than\u00a0favorable reviews, I looked elsewhere and found Discount which had rave reviews. \u00a0Discount also had one other great feature. \u00a0It was only a 3 minute drive from my hotel!<\/p>\n<p>My package of choice was the &#8220;SWAT&#8221; Package which gave me a chance to shoot a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M4_carbine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M4<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MP5<\/a>\u00a0and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beretta_92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beretta 92<\/a>. \u00a0What a blast! (Literally!) I highly\u00a0recommend\u00a0a trip to Discount if you&#8217;re in Vegas and avoid the other popular &#8220;Gun Store&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While shooting, the Range Master, shot some video. \u00a0Have a look:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4clnmFW5b5w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the big update since my last post, however, as I type this, I&#8217;m getting ready for my next adventure. \u00a0Stay tuned to this blog for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! \u00a0It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve updated this blog. \u00a0So, what have I been up to&#8230;&#8230; Other then putting up with winter, the big event was a return trip to Vegas! \u00a0After a great time there in October, I wanted to go back and see a few more places I didn&#8217;t have time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching Up!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icenryeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}