It was a short stop over in Las Vegas that I took with my homie Jur from Amsterdam as we were on our way back to San Francisco from a snow boarding trip in Colorado. We stayed in the Circus Circus hotel on the Strip, which is an interesting theme for a casino that combines gambling, and amusement park and circus acts for its patrons. The hotel feels like a relic from the past, when these types of theme hotels were the hype. The trend these days seems to be high end design hotels and city themed complexes. So you can visit New York, Venice and Paris all in this neon filled desert oasis of Nevada..

I started my days journeys down by the Wynn casino, where the house always wins, and took off down the strip, passing through Venice, over by the big pirate ship of Treasure Island, into the tropical forrest of the Mirage. Vegas is an interesting city to move through, as its an outdoor labyrinth of escalators, short air-trams, and wide sidewalks filled with people from all over, most of them caring crazy colored cocktail concoctions in what looks like a gigantic chemical beaker. I rolled by Paris, checked out the palace that Caesar built, back over by the Hollywood Planet, then taking a rest at the gigantic fountains in front of the Bellagio, to watch one of the hourly water shows. Then back on the road to New York, over the bridge to the MGM to see the tourists taunt the lions behind thick glass at the entrance, right before you get to the card tables. Then took a couple of escalators and was in front of the Excalabur, which looks like giant white castle and the mothership of small burgers, with the journey ending over by the Luxor pyramid, with a large replica of a sphinx as you roll by the entrance, making you wonder