Tuesday, October 22nd<br><br>[color:blue] Casinos and Side Trips </font color=blue> <br><br><br>One of the great features of Vegas is that you don't need a car. You can stay on the Center Strip, walk, get out into the middle of it all, right outside your hotel's front door. <br><br>Or for that matter, you can stay on the South Strip. There's a tram from the MGM Grand Hotel, located at the corner of Tropicana and the Strip. It will take you to Bally's and the Center Strip in minutes. But, wherever you stay, there's a trolly, buses, cabs, shuttles and trams; you can get anywhere, from anywhere, on Las Vegas Boulevard. <br><br>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once said, "Sherlock Holmes greatest asset is his intimate knowledge of London".<br><br>Well, Sherlock Holmes didn't become intimate with his beloved London by just riding up and down Baker Street in a horse drawn carriage public Hansom Cab of Nineteenth Century England. He studied, experienced the Opera, the orchestra, on one side of town, cut through the shrouded fog of the docks, cloaked, incognito in the opium dens on the other side of town, the exclusive gentleman's clubs and Jack The Ripper mean streets of Victorian London.<br><br>If you're interested in knowing Vegas, maybe not quite in the biblical sense, but intimately, you must rent a car, you must drive in Vegas, you must be interested in experiencing every side of her, you must love her.<br><br><br>Tuesday, October 22nd (To Be Continued)<br><br>