I know you might have heard I was doing a California road trip but our journey actually begins in Las Vegas (Sin City tempted us with cheaper air fare). It’s not the most obvious of destinations to begin in search of the off-beat and unique, but certainly not impossible– and I like a challenge. We plunged into the neon lights of Las Vegas Boulevard at night, wandered in awe through the heaving casinos and took in the sparkling sights, exhausting our senses in a single road. I can imagine a good chunk of Las Vegas’ visitors never actually leave the strip, but I wanted to see the old Vegas; the vintage Vegas I’d seen in the movies, and I knew I wasn’t going to find it anywhere near the gargantuan HD televisions or gleaming gambling temples of the strip– at least not on “the strip” as we know it today…
