Vegas Strip Trip
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howeirdMy phone claimed I had done 6,000 steps yesterday, and a lot of that was torture. The plan was to park at MGM Grand (check) because they give 4 hours credit for locals. But when I got there, the ticket system was down for a major upgrade, so parking was free. It took me a while trying to get the machine to dispense a ticket before I noticed the gates were open.
It was a long walk to the monorail, and once there the machine would not bring up the ticket on my phone. It kept saying I needed a wi-fi connection, but there was no service there. Turnd OFF wi-fi and got it on 5G. I expected a bar code, but it just wanted the phone held against it for NFC. That worked.
The ride to the end of the line at Sahara was very bumpy, not at all the smooth ride I expected from a fairly new monorail. Waited for the next car, about 10 minutes, and got off as planned at Bally's, the closest stop to Bellagio. Very long walk through Bally's and Paris to the strip. Arrived at about 2:30, looked on the web site and saw the fountain shows were hourly starting at 3. People-watching was excellent.
The first fountain set was the Star Spangled Banner, with scratchy singing and some sound effects. It was okay for daylight. I need to go back after dark.
My goal was to get photos of the Statue of Liberty, a long walk south (across from MGM Grand). The walk was made even longer by there not being a through pedestrian path on the Strip. You have to go into casinos or malls and find the escalator to the skybridge, walk across that to the next casino (or mall) and find the escalator down to street level. Over and over again. Good for the casinos, better for taxis and Uber.
I did finally get there. And found a bonus statue a little to Liberty's right
And also the MGM lion
The full set of 190 or so photos is here.
Got home and processed the photos, many sore muscles and Las Vegas made me dirty - had to wash my face. I wore a mask for most of the trip.
90 Day Single Life Tell-All took up most of my Tivo time, and I also made it to the BASFA zoom meeting. Did not even watch MNF.
It was a long walk to the monorail, and once there the machine would not bring up the ticket on my phone. It kept saying I needed a wi-fi connection, but there was no service there. Turnd OFF wi-fi and got it on 5G. I expected a bar code, but it just wanted the phone held against it for NFC. That worked.
The ride to the end of the line at Sahara was very bumpy, not at all the smooth ride I expected from a fairly new monorail. Waited for the next car, about 10 minutes, and got off as planned at Bally's, the closest stop to Bellagio. Very long walk through Bally's and Paris to the strip. Arrived at about 2:30, looked on the web site and saw the fountain shows were hourly starting at 3. People-watching was excellent.
The first fountain set was the Star Spangled Banner, with scratchy singing and some sound effects. It was okay for daylight. I need to go back after dark.
My goal was to get photos of the Statue of Liberty, a long walk south (across from MGM Grand). The walk was made even longer by there not being a through pedestrian path on the Strip. You have to go into casinos or malls and find the escalator to the skybridge, walk across that to the next casino (or mall) and find the escalator down to street level. Over and over again. Good for the casinos, better for taxis and Uber.
I did finally get there. And found a bonus statue a little to Liberty's right
And also the MGM lion
The full set of 190 or so photos is here.
Got home and processed the photos, many sore muscles and Las Vegas made me dirty - had to wash my face. I wore a mask for most of the trip.
90 Day Single Life Tell-All took up most of my Tivo time, and I also made it to the BASFA zoom meeting. Did not even watch MNF.
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