Category - Day Trips
My Grand Canyon Skywalk Tour
How much money do you take with you when you go out to the middle of the desert? $25? $50? If you happen to go out to Grand Canyon West and walk on the Grand Canyon Skywalk make sure you’ve saved up. Because donning little white booties and walking on thick glass with nothing between you and the 800 feet below — it’s going to cost you.
Like most people from Las Vegas would do, we just drove out there, and we were stopped and told there that we had to buy a package. Before that, we thought we could just drive right out to the Skywalk and pay there and walk, but that wasn’t the case. So after driving for a couple of hours, and then tacking on an extra twenty miles of dirt road, we got stopped and abruptly told to park. Then, in the middle of nowhere, is where we were informed we were on a Hualapai Indian Reservation. Because we were on their territory, it suddenly became a whole other game.
Las Vegas Day Trip #2: Heidi Fleiss’ Dirty Laundry in Pahrump
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Heidi Fleiss, the famous (or infamous, if you prefer; I prefer the former) Hollywood madam-to-the-stars who was convicted in 1995 for tax evasion (the pandering charges were dropped, as I understand it,) has branched out into the greater Las Vegas area, having moved to Pahrump, Nevada about a year ago. During that time the media now and again makes reference to her plans to purchase and convert a Las Vegas brothel in the Pahrump Valley into Nevada’s first male brothel for women, aptly to be named “Heidi’s Stud Farm…” 
Las Vegas Day Trip #1: Zion Canyon National Park
Last week my little nephew was in town visiting from Houston. He’s been coming out the last few summers to stay with me for a week or so and I always like to take him on a little trip. In the past we’ve gone camping up on Mount Charleston, gone to Disneyland and the Santa Monica beach.. that sort of thing. This time I thought we’d go up to a place I’ve wanted to visit for a number of years and never got around to going to for whatever reason, a place a little Cub Scout could definitely appreciate – Zion Canyon National Park.
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Las Vegas Day Trips Series
Starting tomorrow, I’m going to begin a series of articles on “While Las Vegas Sleeps…” that will just sort of happen upon occasion, most likely after I’ve recently visited one of the places I will have written about. I’ve been meaning to do this for some time but I am going to make an effort to do so effective immediately.
Las Vegas, Nevada is a lot things. It’s obviously the gaming capital of the world and that is just about all that most people know about Las Vegas.
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