Very few airlines fly direct from New York to Las Vegas. Some stopover cities are San Jose, CA, Chicago, IL and Denver, CO. Just hope your luggage winds up there at the same time you do!

Is the airline responsible if my pants fall down while I am taking off my shoes?

Who cares what the difference is between dry heat and damp heat when the thermometer registers 117 F.

Will Lorraine or I hit a huge jackpot? Answer - No!

Is all this glitz necessary?

Who needs three meals a day?

Why are cab fares $10 to travel two blocks?

Why do crapshooters scream so loudly?

Do the machines have human qualities? Do they like or dislike the person putting quarters into them?

Should you always bet the maximum on slot machines?

Blackjack players should keep their thoughts and systems to themselves.

Does gaudiness qualify as beauty?

What is a "show?"

Is any show worth $100 a ticket?

Nature side trips from Las Vegas:

a. Hoover Dam

b. Lake Mead

c. Loughlin Nevada on the Colorado River

d. Bryce Canyon

e. Zion National Park

f. Grand Canyon

The Venetian Hotel with its singing gondoliers, painted blue and white ceiling, faux Piazza San Marco, authentic Italian restaurants and operatic arias floating about is like taking a wonderful trip to Venice. Even the hotel's help speak with Italian accents.

Mandalay Bay Hotel has its own beach with sand and a blue ocean with manufactured waves.

Caesar's Stage Deli has the best pastrami you have ever dreamed of.

In Las Vegas the mind of man knows no bounds in terms of creativity. Financing these wild ideas is another story. Gambling seems to pay for everything.

The inside of all casinos have the exact same atmosphere: no windows, no clocks, people carrying plastic cups filled with coins, waitresses with pushed-up bosoms crying, "Beverages anyone?," chain cigarette smokers playing on the next slot machine, polluting the atmosphere while pulling the handle of the machine, the clicking, whirring and inane music emanating from the slot machines, the roulette dealers waving their hand over the field of numbers and saying, "No more bets," and the muted sinister lighting all are the generic components of casinos.

Every casino employee is constantly wishing you "good luck." Are they truly sincere?