Waiting to enter the promise land

I sit poolside in Vegas downing a Bloody Mary and contemplating the start of something new. I’m in a purgatorial state of waiting. With life as I knew it behind me, I’m heading in the Right direction, but penance is due before I can be let in.

My hometown friends from Minneapolis have invited me on a weekend sabbatical in the city of sinners, Las Vegas. It’s the perfect bachelor weekend for a young man making his way from Los Angeles on a one-way trip to a new land full of promise -- New York City.