tales of hotels, casinos and hooters

It’s been a good week at work, but a bad week for blogging. I just noticed I haven’t put anything on-line since last Sunday, so I thought I better say something even if it wasn’t all that important.

I received an advertisement this week from my favorite hotel/casino in Las Vegas and things there are going to change soon. I hope not too much. The place is the Hotel San Remo, which some might consider not to be very elegant, and I guess it isn't, but it is a small hotel within a short walk of many of the really nice casinos. Here is a list of them:

The MGM Grand
The Tropicana
New York, New York
Excalibur
Monte Carlo

It is also a short walk and a monorail ride to the Luxor and Mandalay Bay. When the monorails from the MGM Grand to Bally’s and the one from Monte Carlo to the Bellagio are running the Hotel San Remo is the closest place I know to heaven (excluding the area inside my girlfriend’s arms). The Hotel San Remo is a small and quiet place to stay and a fine place to gamble (especially when there is an open chair at the two dollar blackjack tables), but it is within easy proximity of all the wildlife one could need. By the way, you can still catch the $29 per night room rate, if you book in advance. But like I said, there are changes in the air.

The San Remo, according to what I received yesterday, is soon to become Hooters. As you may have heard, Jimbo is a man who appreciates hooters. If Will Rogers had taken less interest in liking men, he probably would have echoed Jimbo’s mantra that he never met hooters he didn’t like. The San Remo has a sushi bar that attracts a number of Asians, so it must be good, but Jimbo is not a fan of sushi. Whenever there are a group of us going to Vegas together, however, our common meeting place is outside the sushi bar. The name of the sushi bar is changing to the “Bait Shoppe.” If that isn’t an appropriate name, I couldn’t think of any better.

It is hard to find anything in this deal I don’t like, but you know Jimbo, so you can figure he found something. I tried to access the Hooters website listed in the literature and it is a work in progress. I hate to be referred to a website that is nothing except a couple of ads and a note that it is “under construction.” But other than that, it’s all good.

And I am, too. I hope you are doing well, and I will try to do better about keeping up my blog in the future, keeping it real and keeping it close to home.

Because you don’t need to be Magellan or Steve Fossett to circumnavigate Jimbo’s world.