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    Jackpot to Las Vegas: Not Another Travel Guide High Octane
    Jackpot to Las Vegas: Not Another Travel Guide High Octane
    Jackpot to Las Vegas: Not Another Travel Guide High Octane
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    Jackpot to Las Vegas: Not Another Travel Guide High Octane

    By Bob Campbell

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    Think you know Nevada? Think again. At least how we experience it: up before the sun, down by 8PM; hitting nearly every available restroom along the way, snapping pictures of a lot of rocks, and ever watchful for wildlife (as directed by the less-than-helpful signs posted by the Nevada Department of Transportation and highway system).
    While I do try to provide the occasional 'everyone sees it' shot, don't think this will be your typical vacation trip. Instead, in Not Another Travel Guide fashion, we try to go beyond the obvious and let you really experience the wonders and coolness you might miss along a similar journey. Plus, for those needing details and insight not available anywhere else, allowing you to fake your way through a better vacation than your cube-mate, these 180 views of Nevada will put you there.
    The table of contents alone suggest you're in for a different journey:
    Jackpot Pause
    Vegas Launch Before Sunrise
    Sun
    Pronghorn
    Schellbourne Pony Express
    Ely - E-Spa - E-Train
    Highway 6 to 318
    Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge
    North Las Vegas
    Las Vegas
    - Silver Sevens
    Morning in Off-Strip Las Vegas
    GoodWill Las Vegas
    Local Vegas Info Desk
    Red Rock Canyon
    Return to 'The Strip' and Prepare to be Fleeced
    - Paris, Bellagio, Flamingo, Hooters, Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur, New York, Five Go-old Rings, New York, MGM Grand, Tropicana, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
    Retail Therapy and Off-Strip $7.50 Buffet
    Leaving Las Vegas
    Great Basin Flyway
    Middle of Highway 318
    Onward to Lund
    Highway 6 to Ely
    McGill Up
    Wells Whizzes By
    Jackpot
    (I removed any and all references to the Extra-Terrestrial Highway, Groom Lake, Area -Redacted-, and Nellis Experimental Testing Range from the table of contents to fulfill certain "requests" (government word for: "It's optional. Just like living the rest of your life in a hole without windows is an option. Just sayin'.") made by -redacted- )
    So whether you're headed to Las Vegas, trying to avoid The Strip, checking out what you missed while sitting for 36 straight hours at the black jack table / slot machines / $50 buffet hall, or want to experience Nevada without the hassle of actually going, this Not Another Travel Guide Jackpot to Las Vegas fills the void. Useful for everything from wasting time taking a mental vacation while being underpaid at work, to writers and authors wanting to splash realism into works of prose (tax deduction! Then visit where you'd rather go to work on writing your book that includes Nevada... see? This book lets you deduct oh-so-much more! (Jamaica! London! Fox, Oregon! The options are endless! Visit them all!) And when you're in prison for tax evasion, I understand just a few days of labor will generate enough to purchase more Not Another Travel Guide visual vacations to enjoy while incarcerated! Be sure your loved ones *always* say, "Oh? Her? She's not here because she's incarcerated." (if you're male, feel free to switch pronouns) - Guaranteed nearly 100% of people will hear "incarcerated" as two words), to scale modelers (trains, railroads, zombie wastelands, highly classified experimental designed craft war-game fields) wanting a reference for their creations - nearly everyone can find something useful in this book (especially those needing to see a rock. Boy-howdy, do we have a rock in here).
    Give in to temptation and snag yourself a copy. You know you want to. Why? Because people of above average intelligence and highly refined wit find these sorts of books irresistible. Common people and those with minimal humor? Heck, they didn't even read down this far. Which means, obviously, you're of the first group, far above the groveling masses of common bio-waste that warble blindly about in ugly bag of water form. Not you - you're not only smart, but beautiful, too. And completely immune to vague, indiscriminate compliments. Better get a cop

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Campbell
    Release dateNov 27, 2018
    ISBN9780463071069
    Jackpot to Las Vegas: Not Another Travel Guide High Octane
    Author

    Bob Campbell

    The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination.The long of it:I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere.I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave.Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.

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      Jackpot to Las Vegas - Bob Campbell

      : Table of Contents :

      Introduction

      Jackpot Pause

      Vegas Launch Before Sunrise

      Sun

      Pronghorn

      Schellbourne Pony Express

      Ely - E-Spa - E-Train

      Highway 6 to 318

      Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge

      North Las Vegas

      Las Vegas

      - Silver Sevens

      Morning in Off-Strip Las Vegas

      GoodWill Las Vegas

      Local Vegas Info Desk

      Red Rock Canyon

      Return to 'The Strip' and Prepare to be Fleeced

      - Paris

      - Bellagio

      - Flamingo

      - Hooters

      - Mandalay Bay

      - Luxor

      - Excalibur

      - New York, New York

      - MGM Grand

      - Tropicana

      Retail Therapy and Off-Strip $7.50 Buffet

      Leaving Las Vegas

      Great Basin Flyway

      Middle of Highway 318

      Onward to Lund

      Highway 6 to Ely

      McGill Up

      Wells Whizzes By

      Jackpot

      Conclusion

      Master Index and Free Samples

      Other Works by Bob Campbell

      About the Author & Contact Information

      Introduction

      Welcome to another amazing Not Another Travel Guide! This time, we take you on a fantastic journey through Nevada from the Idaho border down to Las Vegas and back. We won't dwell on the sights you can pick up down The Strip (that's in our other book, Not Another Travel Guide Las Vegas edition, available at fine ebook retailers everywhere... except on a river in South America) (In this book, for the fatally curious, I'll include specific information about the pictures on each page at the end of whatever useless patter appears below it. I mean, useful and valuable travel discourse. Well, unless whatever I write is wrong, then I'll accept there might exist contrary data. No matter, the camera data with or without parenthesis will be accurate (give or take a random fact or three). For the above image: Calico Hills along Calico Hills II portion of Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area just west of Las Vegas. 11/6/2018 13:00PM, 1/1600s, f5, ISO200)

      To See, Or Not To See...

      As is our wont, we aim to provide you views and visual enjoyments you might miss if you were to take the same trip. We'll include some of the tried and true images that make places special, but we'll also strive to see things maybe a little differently... and almost certainly at a different time of day than most. All this, along with helpful suggestions and warnings we've discovered during our travels. (Jumbo jet passing between the top spires of New York, New York Casino in Las Vegas... because it took me forever to catch a plane in there after walking a mile or more down a dead-end street (stupid construction! Just three normal city blocks away I could see the street where we needed to go) (several miles later, I would finally be over on the other side of the ten acre lot and able to look back to the stop sign where our path had been blocked in the dead end road we walked down thinking it would connect back, not be gated off... because it's a street for heaven's sake, you don't put construction fence and razor wire across a city street, do you? In Vegas, you do). Special Las Vegas Bonus Hint #1: never trust you'll find a way out from the random road you wander. 11/5/2018 16:51PM, 1/200s, f5.6, ISO800 )

      Buckle Up, We Leave Early

      So saddle up, settle in, turn on your headlights and leave the driving to us. (Good night, New York... in this shot we're headed back to Hooterville after a disappointing run through several theme casino-hotels along one end of The Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. 11/7/2018 16:48PM, 1/160s, f6.3, ISO400 (and of course, it's not quite this dark, either - I'd changed the camera to all manual settings for an intentional mood shot... but it was getting pretty darn dark, and much faster than expected. I liked my version of the truth better than reality).)

      - - - -

      : Table of Contents :

      Jackpot, NV...

      Day already in progress for the past ten hours

      Nevada knows what makes it important, and the Cactus Pete Casino and Hotel looms just across the Idaho-Nevada border - along with the not-so-distant Knoll Mountain Range, which may not look that high, but when you're already a mile above sea level just stepping out of your car in Jackpot, NV, you can start to grasp the land of 'not-as-it-seems' will be our possible vacation theme. 11/4/2018 14:10PM (2:10PM PDT... but, even though Nevada is on Pacific Time, they fully grasp the importance of serving and their duty to neighbors across the border: taking this picture, we're in Idaho, which is Mountain Time, 3:10PM... so Jackpot functions on Mountain Time. PST/Pacific Standard Time sets in just south of the Jackpot, NV city limits), 1/1000s, f5.6, ISO320

      Four Jacks - Nevada's Best Bargain

      Having been through Nevada at least once before, we already understand that Resort Fees shall be the bane of our existence; so we drive right past the big, flashy Cactus Pete's establishment all the way through town (... that was fast), circle back around and stop warily at the Four Jacks, with $40 Rooms as the only major advertising on their reader board. I spend a few minutes firing up the internet - it shows over that amount as the cheapest nightly rate any of the on-line discount clearing houses have to offer... yet, not a one mentions resort fee when I get to the last screen before clicking 'pay now.' I figure it's a scam. Nobody, not even Motel 6, lets rooms for $40 anywhere on the West Coast. Remarkably enough, talking to the ultra-friendly gentleman at the desk (who also happens to run the bar at the saloon on the other side of the wall) with tax and everything, it'll be just over $45. This will be our biggest and best bargain of the entire trip.

      Image: north end of Highway 93 in Nevada, after just over ten hours of driving time to get here from Vancouver, WA, having started our trip at two in the morning earlier in the day, 640 miles ago. 11/4/2018 14:20PM (actually 15:20

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