Nevada

I have been to Nevada 2 times.

In the mid '70's, I was visiting a friend in Utah and we traveled across the salt flats to Wendover and visited the Stateline casino. This was a boring casino, but I had a good time just being there with my friends. The steaks were horrible.

I traveled through Nevada in 2009, coming across I-80, spending a night in Reno, on my way to California and on the return trip I came back through Death Valley and then tooke US 95 down to Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe before heading to Arizona.

Wendover has changed with newer casinos.

The middle of I-80 in Nevada has a few casino towns. There seems to be some mining. As you get towards the west, there are areas which look very white -possible salt? - and people have arranged stones to write messages. Very few trees!

Reno has many casinos of varying sizes. I dined at the Black Bear Restaraunt (a chain). The food was good.

Las Vegas is a big tourist trap and food is overpriced. It gets very crowded as the day wears on. driving on the strip in the afternoon is almost a standstill.