Originally posted from Las Vegas, this update was split into three parts (see related articles) for the sake of reducing the loading time due to the images involved…

Viva Las Vegas! Here in the city of dreams, where all is bright and shiny and pretty and twinkly and noisy and fun to watch. We were on the Strip last night for about five hours or so, and only saw a few gambling machines, which was somewhat amusing. The stuff the various casinos put on for people here has to be seen to be believed - massive fountains “dancing” to symphonies, exploding volcanoes (every fifteen minutes from dusk to midnight), and the like. Best of all, of course, is that we won some money - not a great deal, but we did walk out at the end of the night about USD$17 in our favour. Hurrah! No sweeter feeling than watching five dancing armadillos line up on the Texas Tea slot machine…*grin*

Before I go on further with Las Vegas, let me quickly recover a little part of New York. Contrary to what some of you believe, we did not hate New York. In fact, we found it to be much like Melbourne, and I would have driven in the traffic without a problem, I reckon. We imagine that it’s worse on the major exits from the city, but the parts of the city we saw were reasonable to drive in.

Yes, the Statue of Liberty was small, and we were kind of surprised at that. Not really disappointed, but a little let down, we guess. Always expected it to be some thundering huge object that the huddled masses could see for 100 miles before they got near the coast. Thus, a small statue was not what we’d prepared ourselves for.

The reason at the time for the short mailings from NYC was that we had only 15 minutes each time, and on slow computers, by the time you check email from home, and send out a MooQuack, that’s all the time you have. That explains the brevity, not that we did not like it.

Categories: Travel, Odyssey 2001