How to spend a day and a half in: Las Vegas, NV, USA — off the Strip 🎰
The secret to enjoying Vegas off-Strip: local coffee shops, a bookstore, and a hot springs hike
Vegas is not everyone’s cup of tea — or glass of beer or shot of vodka or two-foot tall frozen daiquiri that you see everywhere on the Strip, whatever your preferred liquid sustenance is.
Maybe you’ve had enough of the too-dim lighting that’s only broken by the blue-light glow of slot machines. Maybe you’re getting lung cancer from the smell of cigarette smoke embedded in decades-old carpet. Or maybe you’re just tired of avoiding panhandlers and the flyers of basically naked men or women being shoved at you as you walk down the sidewalk.
Maybe you’re not in Vegas by choice. Perhaps you’re there for a conference or work event. Or even more likely, perhaps you’ve been dragged to Vegas against your will and your kidnappers have, for some reason, given you exactly a day and a half to spend by yourself while they let loose (after which it’ll be business as usual).
Regardless, I feel your pain.
Here is how I, as someone who does not gamble and hates crowds and tries to avoid the Strip in general, spend 36 hours in Vegas:
