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Group: soc.culture.hawaii · Group Profile
Author: Lawrence AkutagawaLawrence Akutagawa Date: May 20, 2008 07:50
"Maren at google" jach.hawaii.edu> wrote in message
news:1211211000-sch@news.lava.net...>
/snip - follow dah thread/
>
> agree. But I'm not sure it would be to the better. I don't go to Vegas
> and I don't
> gamble, but I wonder whether people who go are more going for the
> gambling
> or more for having rock fever? I for one have no interest in one or
> the other,
> causing squabbles in my family because I said I'm not going to the
> mainland
> (not Vegas) for just a week.
>
> While not having read all the messages in this thread, I have no
> interest
> in casino gambling or any gambling, other than very small scale
> investing
> (which I consider gambling of sorts), but we definitely need to
> diversify
> further.
>
kind off topic, but given the kind of good deals I understand
available to
the Hawaii folks who go to Las Vegas - check the terms and conditions of
those offers. I understand from some firends and relatives who come
here to
the mainland from Hawaii using such offers that it is not necessarily a
strictly Hawaii - Las Vegas thing...there is room for a trip (even an
extended one) to elsewhere on the mainland like to San Francisco or Los
Angeles. If you folks like nature, see if you can use such LV offers
just
to get here to the mainland rather inexpensively. Spend the required
time
(if any) in LV, using as a base for day trips nearby (Red Rock Canyon,
Valley of Fire, even Death Valley). Then use LV as the starting and
ending
point for a tour of the Southwest. There are some sights there you
certainly won't see the likes of anywhere in Hawaii. Zion, Canyonlands,
Bryce, Captiol Reef, Monument Valley, Bisti, Mesa Verde, Arches, Dead
Horse
Point, Chaco Canyon, Little Wild Horse Canyon, Canyon De Chelly,
Antelope
Canyon, the Goosenecks, Horseshoe Bend....the list goes on and on.
And coming back to the main topic, my personal observation is that a
goodly
number of friends and relatives who like to gamble do not go to either
Reno
(from northern California) or LV (southern Califonia) now that so many
indian casinos have opened over recent years in California. They
prefer to
go to these indian casinos - closer and cheaper (especially with the
price
of gas being what it is these days) to get to than the Nevada places.
(Of
course, there is some irony in that a number of these indian casinos are
managed by Nevada concerns.) So I guess my question to those advocating
gambling in Hawaii is - from exactly where do you see the gamblers come?
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