Category: Travel

  • Thursday 20 January 2000 Highlights:  Mann’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood Walk of Fame We caught the Metro Train system into Los Angeles with a mission to find out how to get to Universal Studios and Magic Mountain. We visited Mann’s Chinese Theatre and the Hollywood Walk of Fame checking out all the famous movie stars’ handprints.…

  • Wednesday 19 January 2000 Highlights:  Winning a deck of cards 🙂 Before the afternoon express bus to Los Angeles we had time for one last gambling experience.  While I didn’t win any money on a free slot machine I won a pack of games, lucky me 🙂 All up we gambled at the Stratosphere, Las…

  • Tuesday 18 January 2000 Highlights: Paris Casino, ‘Viv Las Vegas’ show, The Star Trek Experience We slept in today after our 3 am night of gambling and exploring Las Vegas.  Today was about visiting more casinos, starting with MGM Grand and moving onto the Stratosphere Casino which was about 6 kms away.  At the Stratosphere…

  • Monday 17 January 2000 Highlights:  Losing money quickly Vegas style 🙂 An early wake to catch the 7.20 am bus to Las Vegas.  We met up with Mark and Angela for the bus trip.  Arriving in Las Vegas we rang around looking for the cheapest Casino – Hotel which turned out to be the Tropicana…

  • Sunday 16 January 2000 Highlights: The amazing Grand Canyon. After enjoying the free hostel breakfast the tour of the Grand Canyon left around 9.30 am and took approximately 2 hours to get to our destination.  Our driver and guide David took us to four different points on the South Rim during the day and we…