Need help with trip to Las Vegas

[Questor]

Help!!! I have a week of training in Las Vegas coming up at a hotel on the "strip". Everything I've heard and read about Vegas is utterly repulsive to me. It seems the embodiment of everything I try to avoid in life.

Is there anything I can do there that is considered wholesome, like going to the library or going for a walk without being accosted? Going jogging?

I don't really want to rent a car while there because that would be a significant personal expense, and I'd much rather buy a case of .22 ammo instead.

Thanks.

[crustaceous]

The red rocks area west of Vegas is worth visiting. One minute you're in the middle of a cactus filled desert then in the canyons you find small streams, pine trees and song birds. It's about 20 miles from town so you will need a car to get there. Maybe you can win a car at the slot machines!

[Questor]

Thanks. I've asked a few people and it seems like the interesting stuff is outside Las Vegas, like Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, and Red Rocks. Thanks for the tip. Maybe there's low cost option, like a tour bus or such.  One friend who has been there often advises that there's a lot of gang activity there and one should not wander more than a block from the "strip".

[rex6666]

Well you could just walk up and down the side walk or go to the Mall, funny think about Vegas they have a plan "Gambling " that is the reason the city was built from the begining
I have heard their are gangs of prostitues there that if you have no money they will
force themselves on an unwarry man. Mind you i have just heard that.

[Siskiyou]

Clearly a “Sin City” and you should not be exposed to it.  Take advantage of your spare time to get into shape for hunting season.  The major of hotels have gyms for their quest.  Hopefully you will be staying in one of the taller hotels.  Take a stop watch with your or you wrist watch might have that function.  Hike the stairs to build up your legs and lungs. 

The big hotel/casinos have numerous restaurants.  I like buffets, which offer a wide selection of good food at a reasonable price. 

You can then return to your room, watch re-runs of “Cops” on TV and see the crime on the streets below you.  Do not drink the water out of glasses provided in your room.  The maid who cleaned them just cleaned the toilet.  Spend a few dollars and buy a six-pack of bottle water. 

Day three comes along and you are bored.  Look up the Pro Bass Store http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CFPage?appID=94&CMID=&langId=-1&pageView=image&catalogId=10001&partNumber=&storeID=9&storeId=10151&deptId=000000000&categoryId=000000000&jumpToPage=1&currentPage=0&subdeptId=000000000

GPS Coordinates:
36.0427ºN, 115.1818ºW (WGS84/NAD83)

And make a tour of it.  You will enjoy it, and get a little excerse. 

On day four you can make a tour of this gun shop, rent a machine gun for use on the their range and shoot up you savings.  http://www.thegunstorelasvegas.com/

http://www.thegunstorelasvegas.com/coupon.htm

I have no more recommendations because you shot all your funds on day four.

[Questor]

Siskiyou:

Thank you!!! I think I can relate to everything you told me. I really appreciate it. I just printed out your post for reference.

[jhm]

Questor:  You dont have to gamble while in Vagas to enjoy it, every Casino is of a different theme and vary well done I might add If there for a week it wont be long enough to view and enjoy all that you can see in walking distance on the strip, the Volcono show, the Pirate ship fights, The dancing water, The fire breathing Dragon, and the various decores of the various Casinos, some of the best food you can eat, all spiced up with a little game of chanch.   JIM

[Graybeard]

Ladobe (posts mostly on TC Forums) is from that area. I'm not sure if he still lives there or not but that is/was his home for years. He's not a real regular here but posts semi regularly and more so over at SP I think.

You might try a PM or e-mail to him as that's home or was for him.

[Glanceblamm]

All that I can offer would be the Hover Dam tour but you already knew about that one. The food buffet's were once reputed to be great at a very resonable price but I hear that all of the food prices have gone up out there.
Tell you what, after a lifetime of single shots from blkpwder to single actions the day four trip to the gunshop & machinegun rental that Siskiyou talked about would be on my agenda for sure.

[Cheesehead]

Machine guns and buffets, yup.

Cheese

[Questor]

Thanks to everybody for the good ideas. I really appreciate it. Just knowing that there's a tackle shop and a gun shop could be enough to make it tolerable for the few days I'm there.

I had a similar quandary going to San Francisco a few months ago. I probably walked and ran 70 miles there and went to see the sea lions at Fisherman's Wharf. There was a big seamy side to that town, though. It reminded me of a third world country. There are bums everywhere, and soup kitchens that look just like the pictures from the Great Depression, with lines of people that go down a long block then around the corner and out of sight. The food is great there with all the little bistro restaurants. I was glad to leave there. Chinatown was spectacular. Not a place I'd want to live, but it was survivable for a week.