Adventurous Las Vegans have an opportunity to take advantage of an offbeat, quick, and memorable road & rail weekend along the California coast aboard Amtrak’s Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner passenger trains. The road & rail weekend is not about getting anywhere fast, but rather focused on the “journey” as opposed to the “destination”—two forces…
Category: Travel
Video Rental Store Tells a Tale of Tape
Rolling into Astoria, Oregon just before 9 pm, I found myself at the edge of U.S. Route 101. Fatigue clung to me like a heavy cloak, but my eyes remained alert, scanning the town for a place to rest my weary bones. Then, like a beacon in the night, a burst of neon light caught…
How Water Defines Venice and Guanajuato
We arrive in Guanajuato, Mexico on Federal highway 110 at night under heavy rain. Despite road fatigue and disorientation at the town’s driving challenges – a maze of ever winding streets that take a quick dive underground and resurface – we embrace our destination right away. In fact, it feels like we’ve arrived in Europe….