Day 2
Woke up here again, eggs, pancakes, french toast and coffee, head to Vegas, lunch in Barstow (which is the home of the U.S. Army National Training Center, Marine Corps Logistics Base and NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Network), lack of Dairy Queens forced us to eat here, two fun hours in Calico Ghost Town, the Sheriff was a blond stud in too-tight jeans and leather chaps, I tried not to stare but couldn't help myself (I jaywalked across deserted streets, I stole expensive soaps from the gift shop, I stood up on the miniature train ride while it was moving but he just wouldn't arrest me), drove into Nevada and made a pit-stop at Buffalo Bills in Primm to do this (big, tall, fast and fun), an hour later we were in Las Vegas and checking into our hotel and this was the view from our bedroom window ($10 extra per night to get a view of the roller coaster at New York New York Hotel opposite, worth every cent), explored Luxor and MGM hotels exhaustively and in awe, Darren bought us tickets to the Blue Man Group show for later in the week (ta chuck, twas brill), ate till we bust a gut at ye olde worlde rountable buffet at Excalibur and fell asleep watching the Manhattan Express do it's stuff.