{"id":45,"date":"2006-02-13T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispica.de\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2012-02-26T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:10:06","slug":"carnet-de-voyage-day-7-thu-february-2nd-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.giuseppelupo.eu\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Carnet de Voyage Day 7: Thu February 2nd 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Thursday afternoon I will drive back the 300 miles (480 km) to Las Vegas. The morning I had planed to make a tour in Long Beach driving along the Ocean from Naples to San Pedro. After check-out from the Hotel and a quick coffee to go, I took I-110 and then I-405 south bringing me directly to the pacific coast. Here I had a breakfast in a typical american breakfast diner: I ordered a custom breakfast of Hot Bagel with ham, egg and bacon with coffee and orange-juice. Then I drove along the coast to Long Beach.
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\nWylands “Planet Ocean” on the Long Beach arena.
\nEntering Long Beach I was saluted by Wylands painting on the arena and made a drive through Pine street and then a stop at Queen Mary Pier.
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\nQueen Mary Hotel in Long Beach.
\nThen I crossed the Vincent-Thomas Bridge with view onto industrial worldport L.A. and landed in San Pedro, where I stopped at the Korean Bell with nice views over the worldport, the V.T. Bridge and the pacific coastline. After a short stop in San Pedros Green Hills Memorial to visit Buks gravesite it had become 12.30 pm and I noticed it was time to drive back to Las Vegas. I took the I-110 north passing a last time in front of Downtown L.A., turning into I-10 east and then drove for at least 50 minutes throufh outer L.A. until finally merging into the I-15 north which should bring me directly to Las Vegas. Luckily traffic situation was great and from Long Beach through L.A. I could drive with excellent speed. Weather was very cloudy this morning, so that I didn’t stop often for taking photos. On I-15 between Barstow and Baker the visibility was very poor due to wind and sandstorms in the desert. The more I approached Las Vegas, the more the sky became blue again and weather improved.<\/p>\n

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\nApproaching Las Vegas on I-15 north, the Zzyzx Road exit.<\/p>\n

This evening I had a reservation for the New York, New York Hotel and Casino, and it should proof to be the nicest Hotel of my trip. I arrived at about 4.30 pm in Las Vegas and checked in to New York, New York, where I got a nice room with mountain view on 23rd floor.<\/p>\n

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\nSunset seen from my Hotel room in New York New York Hotel (view of Tropicana Avenue)<\/p>\n

My plans for the evening were shopping, eating something and having a walk on the Strip around NewYork Hotel. But first of all I made a ride on the Ny, Ny rollercoaster. Then I took a drive on the strip to the Fashion Show Mall on North Strip (north of Treasure Island), were I found a Levis Store and could buy me my 501 Jeans for 40 USD. After driving back to the Hotel, I walked to have a look inside the Monte Carlo and MGM Hotels and finally landed again in the very nice Ny Ny Hotel for a beer and a drink in the different Bars. I liked the Tequila Sunrise I had here. I was tired after the long drive. Today I had made another 380 miles (608 km) in total. So I went to bed early. For tomorrow, my last full day in Vegas I planed to have a relaxing stress-free day and some last good eats.<\/p>\n

See the complete Photo series of this trip on my Homepage<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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