While Vegas is known primarily as a gambling Mecca, I was there for everything else it has to offer, and what a full menu there is.
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You can’t find many places further from somewhere else than Elko, Nevada. This city of about 20,000 sits halfway between Salt Lake City and Reno; 230 miles from the former and 288 miles along one of the loneliest highways in America from the latter. It is also home to the controversial National Cowboy Poetry Gathering that takes place this year from January 30 to February 4, 2012.
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What do you do with giant construction machinery when there are no machinery jobs? The airlines hide their planes in the desert and keep them safe and dry until they may need them again. But what about excavators and bulldozers?
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Even though Air India’s chairman says that the carrier will be ready to join the Star Alliance between June and October 2010, an alliance executive says that there are still questions as to the carrier’s readiness.
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Sin City is debating the development of “magnificent brothels” and legalization of prostitution. The world’s oldest profession is legal almost everywhere else in Nevada.
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Skiers and snowboarders here in the U.S.A. are enjoying an epic year of snow. Right now, the U.S. has the best skiing and riding conditions in the world. Better yet, most of the resorts with the longest seasons in North America are within only an hour of two great spring skiing airports—Salt Lake City, Utah, and Reno, Nevada.
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On Lake Tahoe’s north rim, two Nevada resorts, Mt. Rose and Diamond Peak, will be holding their annual “Dummy Downhill” races on April 5th. Both resorts are less than an hour from Reno, Nevada, and have great conditions right now.
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