I was unsure about visiting Las Vegas, I hadn’t been there before because there was no attraction between us. However, I had tickets to a concert at The Smith Center and decided to go anyway. In keeping with my ‘no cars’ paradigm I decided to catch a Greyhound bus to Vegas via San Bernadino, Primm and Goodsprings (It’s a real place).
Las Vegas is worth a visit, probably just the one if you don’t gamble, but it could be a good one. Stay in Downtown if you can and catch the bus if you want to visit the Strip. This is about 5 miles South of Downtown Las Vegas and almost a separate suburb. It is worth a visit although while in Downtown you can walk around Fremont Street, on the strip you have to catch a bus from your car park to the Casino.
Make no mistake, Las Vegas needs to be seen to be appreciated. They have just finished converting all lights from bulbs to LED’s and this has cranked up the brightness to eye watering levels and lowered the power bills (about 8% across the board).
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There is a scale under that sign
Fremont Street, gotta be seen to be believed
Venetian Casino, that sky is just painted on…
Gondoliers, in Nevada, in the heart of the desert…
Fremont Street
One of the first poker machines, the max pay was 20:1 and you could only use dimes (10c coins)
Mob Museum
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