This year's vacation: Las Vegas

[jducoeur]

Got back from vacation last night. We weren't quite comfortable planning for a return to Europe yet, so we decided to do something we've been talking about idly for years: a trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. We'd each only been there fairly briefly, and were curious.

So that's where we spent the last week or so, in a few parts:

• Two days staying at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas (aka "Glitter Gulch", the heart of the classic stereotype of LV)
• One day staying at El Tovar in Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim
• Three days at the MGM Grand, the third biggest hotel in the world, one of the ones that define The Strip (the stereotype of "modern" LV)

plus one travel day between each of those -- ten days total, including two in the air and two driving two and from the Canyon.

As usual, I'm going to do a series of posts about various high points, rather than a chronological travelogue. So let's get into it...

Planned entries (I'll come back and edit this as I add stuff):

• Spring Mountain Road
• Fremont Street
• The Fancy Restaurants
• Headache, and the Joy of CBD
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• The South Rim (and dining experiences good and bad)
• The Strip