Viva Las Vegas!

This Sunday evening was spent booking this years holiday to Las Vegas. I shall be departing these shores on 1st November, and returning on the 7th. Last year was my first trip to Vegas, and Karl and myself stayed at the Golden Nugget. The Nugget is in downtown Vegas, about 2 miles from the strip. This meant a bus journey of one hour to get back from the strip in an evening.

This year, I want to be able to experience the nightclubs of Las Vegas and have therefore booked on the strip. Sam has advised me that when he went to Vegas, he attempted a 'pub crawl' down the Las Vegas strip, having one drink in every casino. Apart from the amount of alcohol consumed, this weighs in at a 3 mile walk in the sweltering Vegas heat. You only live once though, so it has got to be attempted.

For our stay, a room has been booked on the Northern most end of the strip at the Circus Circus casino. This will not only be an ideal location to begin the crawl, it will also give us access to the low-limit poker hotbed theat is downtown Vegas in the afternoons. The casino featured in the book/film 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', and Johnny Depp's character quoted of the casino:-

"This is what the whole world would be doing on a Saturday night if Nazi Germany won the war"

I am looking forward to my stay immensely. Hopefully I will not attempt to purchase a primate in the same manner as Hunter S Thompson, but at the end of the casino crawl who knows what will happen.