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Where Not To Speed On Your Road Trip From LA

May 13, 2010 at 12:08 PM | by juliab | 6 Comments

No speed checks here guv’nor

With planes being annoying about bag allowances, ticket prices and people trying to open doors mid-flight at the moment, driving to Vegas seems like a no-brainer. And seeing as it’s only 275 miles from LA, doing that route seems even no-brainier. Driving through the desert, on the freeway – what’s not to love? The pesky police and their pesky speed traps, that’s what.

We just got back last night from a mini road trip to LA and one thing we noticed (apart from the gas stations in Victorville not taking credit cards and people in Barstow being a bit odd) was that, every time we’ve done this drive (admittedly, only four times, but four out of four aint bad), the police speed checks seem to be in the same places.

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Criss Angel Is Doing Magic Tomorrow And You Better Believe It

Where: Lake Havasu City, AZ [map]
May 7, 2010 at 2:57 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

Criss Angel with one of his many fans

Sometimes Vegas can just be a bit too much, y’know? And sometimes the stuff on the Strip gets boring (anyone else stopped even noticing the fat man who stands outside Paris and yells at douchebags?).

If this is you, we have a daytrip suggestion for you. Tomorrow, everyone’s favorite douchebag self-promoter "magician" magician, Criss Angel, is attempting "the most dangerous stunt of his career".

Actually performing a magic trick? Letting the scales (hur hur – see pic) drop from his fans’ eyes? No: being chained up, roped up, chucked off a bridge into the Colorado River and left to drown unless he can escape.

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This is Why You Shouldn’t Drive to Vegas Via the Hoover Dam on a Weekend

February 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM | by juliab | 1 Comment

Don’t get us wrong. We love crossing the Hoover Dam and all. It’s beautiful, spectacular, a testament to man’s ingenuity etc etc (plus we always think of the scene at the beginning of Goldeneye, and we love a good Bond film). As the guy beside us in the video here puts it so eloquently, it’s an “intense dam”. But much as we love it, we wouldn’t want to queue for hours to get over it.

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Things To Know Before You Road Trip It To Vegas

October 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM | by juliana | 1 Comment

With the latest round of cuts from US Airways on flights to and from Vegas, as well as escalating fare prices from other airlines and ridiculous checked baggage fees (except from Southwest), we can't blame you if you're thinking about road-trippin' it for your next trip to Vegas.

We did the Las Vegas-Los Angeles a few times this summer and we've got a few tips to share with you. While some of these are route specific (sorry, no Hoover Dam stops here), we think you can apply some of these tips regardless of your starting point.

While we were happy to save on airfare (weekend tickets to Vegas were around $150 round-trip; gas was about $75 total), we just happened to choose the worst times to leave Los Angeles on the way out there and to leave Las Vegas coming home.

We left on Thursday at 4:25pm from Santa Monica which is prime traffic time in L.A. but we couldn't skip out of work any earlier. This was also the day that Michael Jackson died and everyone was flooding the Westside to camp out at the UCLA Medical Center. So try to avoid departing on a day that a major pop icon dies in Los Angeles. For instance, when Britney kicks the can in Malibu, put off your trip for another few hours or possibly a day, if her death was "too soon."

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