Travels in a Tin Can

chocolates - not bad for an afternoon's (non) work. So impressed were we
that we repeated the trick the next day.
Some of the other freebies left us feeling lucky to have not paid, but
unlucky to have wasted time on them. Top of this list were the hotel
museums. First we went to the Vegas hall of fame museum in the Tropicana.
This was definitely one to walk through rather than linger in - unless you are
interested in closely packed and piled up memorabilia (mostly gambling
chips). It was like a hybrid supermarket/junk shop/second hand bookshop. But
it was free, and to be honest people do not go to Vegas for the museums. We
also visited the Tomb of Tutankhamun in the Luxor. The first part of this
exhibition, archive video of the discovery of the tomb, was interesting.
Unfortunately the rest of the displays are recreations of parts of the tomb,
which are interpreted via a very ponderous audio tour, delivered through
ancient walkmans.
We could have got a lot more for free - or certainly at reduced rates....
had we been in the market for venereal diseases that is. On every street
corner we encountered groups of men giving out leaflets. Their stature
suggested they would have been better suited to careers in boxing or work as
bouncers rather than being in sales, but then the leaflets they were giving out
were not exactly offering 'two for one at Pizza Hut' or ‘25% off at Sainsbury's’.
What they were distributing were flyers, often just business card size, and
advertising escorts - illegal in this part of Nevada, hence the furtive street
sales campaign. We innocently accepted the first card we were offered but
quickly adopted a ‘walk by without making eye contact’ approach. In order to
get people's attention the 'sales reps' somehow flicked the cards together to