Las Vegas: 22nd - 25th February 2006 We left San Francisco at 7.15am to make it back to the airport in time for our hop over to Las Vegas. Arriving at the airport in Las Vegas was truly bizarre, as you fly in you're surrounded by a mass of desert, and then the Strip becomes visible with all these insanely shaped buildings that are your first glimpse of the casinos. In the airport itself, there are more slot machines than in the arcade on Southsea seafront. After retrieving our luggage, we found our way to a bus stop to try and get a bus down to Fremont Street where our hostel was. We'd already heard a few comments about the area being a bit dodgy, but there only seem to be 2 hostels in the entire
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