The Road Trip

Day 19:

Left: Santa Monica, Los Angeles at 11:30am
Arrived:Los Vages, Nevada at 5pm
States:California, Nevada
Distance: 310 miles

We hit Sunset Blvd. at about 11am, we drove around Beverly Hills and Hollywood for about an hour or so. We didn't see any stars but did get the obligotory photos with the Hollywood sign (although it's impossible to get that close to it).
After a while we left LA and drove east for teh big LV, Los Vages. I'd been looking forward to here more than anywhere else. The last few days have been a bit of a reanactment of Fear and Lothing in Los Vages (the book) so teh fact that we were rollin through teh (suprisingly hot) Nevada desert only served to further this sense of Deja vu.
We got into Vages at about 5 and went around some hotels looking for last minute deals. After a while thinkin of staying in some crappy place outside of teh main area we decided to splash out and stay in the Hotel Tropicana. It's one of teh big theamed hotels with a huge casino (one of the main reasons we stayed there). We hit the town at about 10pm or so and walked up and down teh strip (which is 3 miles long). It's exactly the same as it's portrayed on TV. more lights than you can shake a very large stick at and shows, water fountins and flame shows going on everywhere. We checked out the big casinos on the strip. They're all really cool. We got a load of used cards from them.
We headed back to Tropicana at about 12 and hit the Texas Hold 'em tables at about 1am. We both bought in for 40 dollars and were up and down for a while. We were eventually eaten up by the 'sharks' (the standard wasn't actually all that good, but it was really imtimadating playing in Vages) by 4:30am (they pump the casinos with oxygen so you don't get tired).
I got to bed around 5:30am, Vages is the coolest place in the whole world. I'm deffinatly coming back.