Yeah, Vegas is nuts. My wife and I eloped down there and spent one too many days: by the last night we just stationed ourselves in the hotel room, watched MASH reruns, and drank the prosecco we scored on the flight down.

Stuff about Vegas: everything costs money. It’s hard to exist somewhere hospitable for free. I started thinking about it in terms of renting air conditioning with the price of a margarita. Also, people will approach you immediately and try to sell you cheap shows. Tell them to go away; once an initial person hits you up, the rest seem to know and stay away. Don’t worry about being an asshole; sometimes being an asshole is the correct course of action.

We had one guy in an official vest walk up and tell us he had to detain us… because we were allowing the lovely ladies with us to walk right past his bar. I fucking unloaded on him and he disappeared. Nobody bugged us in that area after that.

If you find yourself on a casino floor, get a drink and tell everyone that every table you walk up to starts losing immediately. They’ll leave you alone. On the upside, you can smoke cigarettes pretty much anywhere, inside or out.

We stayed on Fremont, which is kind of insane but also kind of fun. You’ll see a lot of people dressed up like… I dunno wookies or hunter thompson or whatever. Don’t randomly take their pictures: if you do, you’ll have to pay them. Once you get beyond Fremont or the Strip, it’s just like any other town. Library sounds like an awesome idea.