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For the long 4th of July weekend Thilo and I have planned to do a nice little road trip from Cupertino to Las Vegas.
With our rented Pontiac convertible we headed east on Thursday short after noon and of course we hit the first traffic jam just one hour later. Fortunately, that was the only traffic jam on our tour before we arrived in Las Vegas ten hours later.
As we drove through the Death Valley we had about 106°F in the middle of the night and during the day it was hardly possible to walk around in Vegas without a hat, enough water and a strong belief in survival.

Driving through the Strip at night is very impressive and is unimaginable how much money all these swanky hotels and casinos must have been cost.
And indeed, everything is very expensive. If you don’t want to live on fast food a lunch or a nice dinner could eat up your budget for the slot machines.

Visiting Las Vegas for three days was great but I wouldn’t want to stay there much longer. If you don’t have the money for seeing shows or do other fun (and therefore expensive) things you’d probably stay in the hotel or casino (not gambling) for most of the time which becomes pretty boring sooner or later.

Thanks to Thilo for that amazing road trip and an awesome time in Vegas!

Here are a few pictures.