Off to Nevada

The lighter side... playing for entertainment, less concerned about "the math."
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onemoretry
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Re: Off to Nevada

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dinghy wrote:
Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:00 pm
Did you write up your last trip?

I tried looking, but I'm incompatible with the search feature here.
It does look like I slacked off on that one, and didn't write anything. I'm particularly surprised that I posted nothing about our tortuous flights home.

We stayed three nights at the Rio (Caesars paid for our flight from Buffalo to Vegas, so a stay at a Caesars property was mandatory), then five nights at the Four Queens, followed by 12 nights in a timeshare (Grandview). While at the Grandview, we played at South Point and the M.

While at the Rio, we walked over to the Gold Coast and played some multiline 25c bonus poker, and then, to our disgust, found that Boyd Gaming was the only casino chain that made no COVID concession at all by extending tier status, as all others did.

Overall, I lost about $1135 at the machines on the trip, despite hitting two 25c royals. That was offset a bit by a little over $200 in cash back from the M, four Queens, and South Point.

The trip back to Buffalo on Southwest Airlines was supposed to be Vegas - Chicago - Buffalo. When we checked in online, we found that, instead, we would be going to Milwaukee, then Baltimore, and on to Buffalo. This was due to forecast nasty weather in Chicago.

While waiting for our flight in Milwaukee, we were advised that the Baltimore to Buffalo flight had been cancelled, again due to bad weather.

We managed, with some difficulty, to arrange our rearrange our schedule so that we flew to Baltimore, visited our daughter and family in Odenton Md for two nights, and then flew back to Buffalo, arriving there some 36 hours later than originally scheduled, where, thankfully, our luggage was waiting for us.

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Post by advantage playe »

similar to my mohegan trip for a week, i hit 5 quads for 600 each during the week, 3000 dollars incoming ,and went home losing apx 1000 dollars out going ! oh well !

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Post by advantage playe »

in ref to my post money wise, sorry for your travel debacales.

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Ditto. If anyone ever goes to Aruba, have fun clearing Customs twice on the way in. At least that is how it was 15 or so years ago. I try and forget the details. Was no fun.

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Post by onemoretry »

onemoretry wrote:
Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:15 am
We managed, with some difficulty, to arrange our rearrange our schedule.....
It sure is embarrassing to reread one of your previous posts, and see how you failed to clean it up!

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onemoretry wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 8:33 am
It sure is embarrassing to reread one of your previous posts, and see how you failed to clean it up!
I enjoyed the report anyway, thanks. Looking forward to the new one. You are slated for an extraordinary amount of driving. Each leg must be at least 5 hours, so that's got to be close to 20 hours in total.

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Stay safe and well. Enjoy the drive. I still love driving except for the new crop of lunatics on the road. Join the club on the posts. I think I am the king of typos, Capitalizations, and punctuation errors. Sometimes in a hurry and just too lazy for cleanup if most of the post is legible.

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Post by advantage playe »

Me too , with the error filled grammer.

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dinghy wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:43 pm
Each leg must be at least 5 hours, so that's got to be close to 20 hours in total.
Actually, it looks like 6-7 hours is more likely. Fortunately, we have three drivers, myself, my wife, and our Vegas based friend, who also is supplying the vehicle.

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Post by Tedlark »

onemoretry wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:06 pm
dinghy wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:43 pm
Each leg must be at least 5 hours, so that's got to be close to 20 hours in total.
Actually, it looks like 6-7 hours is more likely. Fortunately, we have three drivers, myself, my wife, and our Vegas based friend, who also is supplying the vehicle.
Wayne Newton ?

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