It is that time again. Las Vegas at Christmas time. Although it was not supposed to be. I am supposed to be in the Middle East. But war.
I never posted my last trip report so you do not know this but back in May, when I was in Vegas, I got sick of Vegas. I mean I got SICK of Vegas. It just felt increasingly dumb to gamble. I wasn’t having fun and I didn’t want to be there anymore.
I had another trip booked for July and cancelled that while still in Las Vegas. I thought this was finally it. But then here I am with time off and nowhere to go because my planned trip to the Middle East was off. But I don’t want to spend the trip in Vegas. But Vegas is easy. But I don’t WANT TO GO THERE.
I priced some other destinations that were quite expensive as I was now not booking far in advance.
I also really hate my job. Perhaps if I had spent a week or two checking on things, I could have done better. But because I hate my job, I absolutely must have all trips booked NOW because having trips booked NOW is how I stop myself from screaming FUCK YOU I QUIT.
So I decided to use Las Vegas as a base to see other cool stuff. This way I get to take advantage of my comps, but this is not an actual Las Vegas trip. It is a trip where I am using Las Vegas as a base to see other cool stuff.
I’ll write more about that cool stuff as it happens.
Booking this trip was so difficult. I had to keep telling myself this is not a Vegas trip. Yes, you do want to stay in this hotel but guess what? YOU CAN’T. Because this trip is not about Vegas. It is about using Vegas as a base.
I am also going to be burning a lot of my comps on this trip and I am fine with that too. I do want to keep Boyd in tact because I love Boyd. Cosmopolitan too, but since they are now owned by MLife, they may break up with me after I burn MLlife on this trip. Oh well.
I arrived in Vegas, fresh off a cruise to the Bahamas that was plagued by weather issues. I didn’t care about all that. I didn’t want to go to the Bahamas. I just went because it was a $100 cruise and I had time to kill.
Then off to Vegas! I rarely arrive in daylight so I took a million photos as we were approaching Las Vegas.
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