We are sitting back in the virgin loft lounge waiting for our flight back home, this lounge scrubs up better in the virgin website pictures, its the old Alaskan lounge we visited in 2010 with a lick of paint, at least the beer is unlimited this time (last time it was Max 2 per person) […]

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This is the real space shuttle one of three on display around the USA as well as the test shuttle we saw in Washington last trip that now lives in New York. The exhibition is only temp, they have plans to build a huge exhibition hall and mount the shuttle vertical with the booster rockets […]

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This was a pretty good place, other than having the Space Shuttle (see next story) it has a lot of family orientated displays including a pretty impressive aquarium and an Apollo capsule, Best of all it was a donation for entry (other than the $10 for parking). [Show as slideshow]    

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Today we leave Las Vegas and head to Long Beach California the last port on the 2013 Roadtrip.  The drive takes about four and a half hours. Most of the scenery is desert and Joshua trees but there a few roadside casinos, signs and other interesting things to see. One pic you will see here […]

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This is a pretty cool attraction in Vegas that not many people know about.  It is a museum dedicated to the old neon signs that have graced Las Vegas over the years.  They do a lot of work restoring works and placing them back on the streets as artwork but the broken down signs sitting […]

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On our journeys along the strip we went to the old Imperial Palace Casino, it’s now renamed and undergoing a huge of a reno. There still is an old section of the casino where we stumbled upon a exhibition of Elvis’s stuff and had to have a look. They had his last car, a lovely […]

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This was a highlight of the evening a car display outside the Plaza hotel  or  Bucks Casino as you might remember it in Back to the Future.  All the owners were really proud of their vehicles and thought they were pretty cool -we didn’t quite understand… The best bit was watching one of them catching […]

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Freemont Street is the old part of Vegas, many of the older style casinos are down there and many have a heritage look and feel. They all use neon instead of the LED screens that have taken over the strip so there is a bit of charm. The area is a cheaper than the strip […]

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These hotels are incredible one in a Spanish theme while the other is just like walking into Venice, although the water is a bit too blue.  The gondola ride goes right through the centre of the hotel.  The place is that big we got lost bad and it took us about 20 minutes to find […]

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We continue north up the strip, through the Mirage home of the Beatles LOVE that we are going to see Monday night.  The pic of the big oval disc is home to the fashion mall a huge mega complex full of clothing.  The frog was a mascot for one of the bars and the pirate […]

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Caesar’s is one of the original themed hotels in Vegas, but has undergone some incredible transformations over the years.  The detail is amazing, everything looks so real but im sure its just cement and fibre glass. [Show as slideshow] 1 2 ►    

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These photos were taken to the south of our Hotel,, Theres Mandalay Bay that has a thai jungle theme, The Luxor- Egyptian theme, Monte Carlo, New York New York and the  modern looking Aria. The Aria has the most incredible video walls they would be 20 stories high and the quality is like your home […]

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