I'm not entirely sure why Primm exists. If you're coming from California and you can't wait until you get to Vegas to gamble, then you should probably have stayed at home. The outlet malls aren't offering any noticeable deals (but this is probably because Las Vegas has cut prices). The rooms are no better or worse than thousands across the country- they provide a bed to sleep in and somewhere to clean yourself up. But there is the Bonnie and Clyde car. The one they were in when they got shot. A lot. Course when I got back I had to read about it on Wikipedia. 130 Bullets. A hundred and thirty. That's quite a lot. As well as the car there's also the shirt that Clyde was wearing at the time, pretty torn up and tattered, but laundered thankfully.

Now I'm not going to go into whether they deserved it, or should have been handled differently, but for some reason I think part of the tragedy of their story is that their car now sits in on a casino floor, behind plexi panels, with a couple of mannequins dressed up as them and one of them holding a gun. People stop and take pictures. There's something just sad about that to me.

Some of the members of their gang said that a hail of gunfire was a better way to go for them than being caught. But now part of their legacy is a random stop along one of America's freeways, right up there with the giant ball of yarn in. . .well, wherever it is. Maybe that's why Primm is there?

Either way, if you're driving along the I-15 south of Vegas you can stop and take a look at it. Or not.