Column | Vegas kicks the bucket list

So, after five hours driving through the desert, we see the bright lights of Las Vegas looming on the horizon. Our excitement is palpable. The thing about Vegas is that, if you are a product of American film culture, as most of us are, you almost know the place: there’s the Bellagio hotel with its iconic fountains, as seen in a thousand films. There’s the New York-New York Hotel and Casino, and of course The Venetian Resort , and the unmistakable Caesars Palace.

I look up and a massive billboard stares back at me. It carries an advert for a shooting range: “Shoot a .50 calibre only $29.” I’m still staring at it when a man, seemingly high and wasted all at the same time, asks me for a dollar. We quicken our step and make it to the casino restaurant where we have a booking. Our fellow diners have not made an effort.

We’re out of there first thing the next morning. And this is just the first stop in what’s to be a seven-day trek. Bucket list? Mmm, it’s not always what it is cut out to be.

Obviously you carried too much luggage. Should have dumped the wife

What were you expecting?. The opera.....

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