![]() On the Big Monkey, you can gamble, spend $50000 on a low-end wrist watch, eat generally delicious food, and watch your bank account scream as it is slowly skinned alive. Only tourists and rubes call it “The Strip.” Locals call that stretch of road the Big Monkey. ![]() Some call it the “Vegas Strip,” but you should never do this. To get the full dose of the city, you need to spend a lot of time on Las Vegas Boulevard, where all the biggest, shiniest hotels, casinos, shows, and malls are. Then corporations took over and poured billions into the place, and now it is a blindingly shiny, supremely odd, iconically American work of art. ![]() ![]() Las Vegas, sometimes called the Windy City, was once a supremely tacky town in the middle of a desert, built by gangsters so that you could get a divorce while gambling and eating one dollar steaks. Don’t step outside into the 115 degree heat without one of these bad boys ! ![]()
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