We were a couple of hours away from Vegas at Beatty, so we drove straight to the city of glitter, right through the Death Valley. Straight roads all the way for 25-30 miles, scenery right out of one of those movies, it was quite insane.
We drive into Vegas but we decide to skip the strip because A is too hungry and we don't have the time to figure out parking and walk to a casino. So we go all the way South of the Strip and get out at South Point Casino which is this lower-end casino off-strip, but it had everything we needed -- the machines, the gambling, poker tables, and most importantly of all, all-you-can-eat buffet!
We waited for 45 minutes in the line for the buffet at the resort, the Garden Buffet. I had four rounds of food, the food itself was alright, better than my undergrad but way worse than grad school but it was only 20 bucks so no big loss. We spend hours there, take a nap in the car for a while, then drive through downtown to nearby the Strip. A wanted to see Trump tower, but we couldn't find convenient place for him to walk around, so we stopped at a parking lot close to it. A wanted to visit the strip but I didn't so he took the uber to the strip and walked for hours while I sat in the car chilling and talking to international friends.
When A came back, I wanted to go to LA to meet my friends but timing-wise it was impossible to make it back on time. We evaluated going to SLC but that was an even worse idea, so we drove back the way we came (for the night, the next two days would be very different routes). We filled up gas at Costco in Vegas, had TacoBell dinner, and drove full-speed. Driving in the dark at such straight stretches i really strange because you can see the cars from the other side for minutes before they cross over you.
We drove four hours at night and stopped at Tonopah, Nevada. First time around I accidentally went to a 'slightly' nicer motel, but thought it was weird, and the pricing made it clear that the place was on the higher price range than the kinds of place we were staying, eventually we ended up at the Tonopah Travel Inn.
It was a pretty decent place to stay.
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