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Tiffany · Expert Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 141

Come to Miami Fab - you are considered a tourist if you don't kiss friends, family and acquaintances on the cheek. This was not an exchange at all, but my sister came up to visit me at the university I went to in Massachusetts. The first day she was there, I introduced her to some school friends. She kissed each one twice on the cheek as I introduced them. This is customary in Miami, but they were kinda freaked out.

Uriel · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject:

Loic · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

I suppose this is why anyone who says that Las Vegas is a sleazier, greasier, more artificial, more expensive part of the USA doesn't know what they're taking about.....or is talking about Las Vegas.

I have friends who drove to Las Vegas by car from Los Angeles (they study at UCLA). According to them, despite the city's shallow image, there is some remarkably and deeply soul-stirring art to be found in the casinos and brothels in the city - the art of gawking at the obscene amount of money exchanging hands, that is. And if one is a culture vulture searching for something to stimulate his senses and soothe his soul, I was told that Las Vegas is unsurprisingly at the nexus of quite a few motorways, and a drive off to any destination will take one somewhere with more cultural depth than Las Vegas.

This is why I really want to visit Las Vegas and hope that my visit coincides with a Texas Hold'em poker tournament. I have started learning how to play it recently and I must say that it is far more interesting than bridge.
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Deborah · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:26 am Post subject:

I don't care for gambling and I couldn't wait to leave Las Vegas. It was a mere 4-hour drive to the Grand Canyon from there.

Uriel · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject:

Prostitution is actually illegal inside the city limits of Las Vegas and Reno, although it is legal in much of Nevada, and I know it happens all the time regardless.

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