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A s I drift along Las Vegas Boulevard, the Bellagio hotel fountains send choreographed geysers of water into the air, in defiance of the fact that the city sits in the Mojave Desert, one of the driest places in North America. Nevada is many things – subtle is not one of them. Even if you've never had the urge to swagger up to a poker table, it's hard not to be dazzled by the Strip, that glittering expression of American bombast. Just as it's hard not to be rendered speechless by the view of the Amargosa Desert from the ghost town of Rhyolite – a vista so threadbare that the mere act of observation makes you thirsty. And if you're like me, you'll be unwittingly swept up in starspangled patriotism as you peer over the Hoover Dam into the abyss, while a propaganda video trumpets p28-33_Nevada.indd 29 GOING PL ACES >> fa l l 2 0 1 3 29 13-08-14 1:28 PM