The Vegas Strip at Tropicana Ave

The Vegas Strip at Tropicana Ave

The whole first part of my trip had not been my plan at all it was a series of accidents that could not have worked out better. The mining trip that did not work out, the place I stayed the things I saw, the hangovers that made for perfect timing I felt like the luckiest sap on earth.

Now for the part of the vacation I booked in advance, a motel two blocks off the south end of the strip.

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The morning after the Grand Canyon trip I drove down and moved in, impressive, a bed a TV and a toilet everything a guy needs to feel comfortable. I dropped off the rental car at the airport because I only rented the car for my original plan of driving to the opal mine. The airport shuttle took me back and dropped me off at the MGM Grand then I walked out to see the strip for the first time.

Giant lions, miniature cities, ancient Egypt juxtaposed TV screens as big as a city block and giant construction cranes everywhere. An entirely different canyon, standing on one of the elevated pedestrian walkways you can watch the construction cranes carve it to the whims of the dollars on the street.

I walked up as far as the Bellagio and Paris snapping pictures of every Vegas icon I came across. I walked inside each to see what a new Vegas casino looked like and some were pretty cool. I started back early though this would take some planning and I wanted to clean up before going out that night.

My idea was to go out somewhere I could dance and perhaps meet people. I had seen the Bar Coyote Ugly inside NY NY and decided to start there. I walked over from the MGM and just as I get in the door at NY NY someone handed me a free admission to Coyote Ugly, 20 bucks normally.

That night was great and Coyote Ugly was hilarious it has two gimmicks; women bartender’s called Coyotes stand on the bar with a microphone and shout orders at the crowd, make rude lewd commentary the second gimmick is that they get women tourists to dance on the bar by offering them free shots. The real enticement to dance on the bar is to have someone who came with you take a picture of you having a wild time in Las Vegas. Several times I saw bridal parties get up and dance on the bar the bride to be would wear a piece of lace or veil in her hair an soon the whole bunch would be dancing on the bar.

Free stuff

I woke the next day with a hang over and laid out at the pool for 20 minutes front and back took a shower and walked back to the strip. I knew from a flyer I found in my rental car that somewhere in Vegas you could get free show tickets at the “Las Vegas Information Bureau” I asked an employee at NY NY and he said “I think that is in the giant coke bottle.” It turns out that the Giant coke bottle has lots of stuff but I didn’t see “Las Vegas Information Bureau” until I was walking out. It turns out to be a time share tour that earns you the free show tickets. I had bad experiences with time a share tour in the past but I thought Hook me up with free tickets and I won’t let any of it bother me.

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