Pages Tagged “Las Vegas”
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- High-Speed Rail from (Almost) LA to Vegas Finally Happening
Brightline West is ready to start breaking ground this week, according to The Washington Post. The southwest endpoint will be in Rancho Cucamonga, where it will connect to Metrolink. (Which is definitely better than Victorville, which I’d seen suggested a few years ago.) Connecting to the existing lines here will make it simpler to build […]
- Laser Lion!
Look out! She’s preparing to fire! (From the same visit as Lion around in Vegas.)
- Vegas Flashbacks
I’ve been posting old photos to Flickr lately, including some shots from a couple of trips to Las Vegas. Like this shot of the Flying Saucer Mall — excuse me, the Fashion Show Mall. (I got the initials right!) Seriously, doesn’t that view just say, “The visitors have landed?” Maybe they’ll want some Alien Fresh […]
- Why Las Vegas is a BAD idea for Comic-Con
People keep saying Comic-Con should leave San Diego for Las Vegas to get more space, but would it really be an improvement? Here are six reasons why not.
- Only in Vegas – Double or Nothing
While they may tell you that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, they’re not entirely correct: some of it escapes onto the internet! So here’s the lighter side of our recent trip to Las Vegas. Let’s start with the drive out. Somewhere between the Cajon Pass and Victorville, we saw a warehouse with this […]
- Lion Around in Vegas
The MGM Grand Hotel has a lion habitat: a zoo enclosure with glass walls facing the casino floor. After all, Leo the Lion has been MGM’s mascot since the early years of the last century, so the MGM Grand is all about the lions.* We paused there as we passed through last Thursday afternoon, and […]
- Return to Vegas
Katie and I seem to do vacations in pairs. We’ll go somewhere on a trip, then a year or two later come back and do all of the things we discovered but couldn’t find time for the first time around. Last April we went to Las Vegas for an extended weekend, did some sightseeing, saw […]
- Only in Vegas
You know the routine. We can’t pass up a bizarre image without taking a photo and posting some sort of comment. Not even on vacations. The drive to Las Vegas from southern California is simple: make your way to the 15, head north, and keep going until you get blinded by the neon. The ⅔ […]
- Haunted Vegas… In Your Room!
We picked up a few flyers on our way to Las Vegas, including one for the Haunted Vegas tour and show. We didn’t get around to looking it up, but we didn’t quite need to. The South Coast Hotel* is so new that they’re still building things like the swimming pool. Being new, lots of […]
- Back from Vegas
Whew! We took a few days off for our second anniversary and drove out to Las Vegas last weekend. Neither of us gamble, so it might seem kind of an odd choice, but there’s something else Vegas has a lot of: shows. In four days we managed to see Avenue Q, “Pirates 4-D” (a cheesy […]