Travel Tips & Adventures

By Guest Author Peggy Bradshaw; Photos by George Bradshaw

There are things to do and see in Las Vegas besides the casinos and the machines that take your money or the expensive shows that you have to wait in line for hours to see. There is a free show every night in downtown Las Vegas called the “Fremont Experience” and it is just that. They have erected a screen covered with thousands of LED lights that goes from Las Vegas Boulevard to the Plaza Hotel at the other end of Fremont Street. Every hour on the hour they produce a light show, each one with a different theme with different special effects and soundtracks. Las Vegas is trying to draw tourists from the Strip to downtown to rejuvenate the area. It is a very neat “Fremont Experience” and is worth getting a crook in your neck to look up and see.

Fremont Street Experience - Las Vegas

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Everyone said that I should go to Las Vegas.  People were incredulous that I had never been there.  I resisted.

“It’s decadent!”  “I hate gambling!” “Look at all that waste of electricity!”

Finally, in 2008, I went to Vegas.  

Excess and excitement

Precisely the reasons I refused to go are the reasons to experience Las Vegas – at least once.

Entering Vegas from the south, we experienced the excess and elegance that is Vegas.  A wedding party was camped out at the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign, immortalizing their vows and blocking traffic.   

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