- On the drive to Vegas, just before the Cajon Pass, the Highway Patrol stopped us and said that chains were required to continue. It was about 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning and we had no chains, so we just pulled off to the side of the road to wait until the road was clear. Mike was already asleep, but Paul and I couldn't doze off; it was too cold. Finally, after sitting there a good half hour, we noticed that all the Highway Patrolmen had left, so we continued on. The thing was, Mike slept through the whole thing, despite the Highway Patrol making announcements with bullhorns and the commotion of people putting chains on.
- As we approached Barstow, Paul and I woke Mike up. "Come on, get up. We're gonna have breakfast." After pulling into the Barstow McDonald's, after getting out of the car and walking into the actual restaurant, after ordering our food, after taking our food to a table, and after actually starting to eat -- after all that -- Mike asked, "Is this Las Vegas?"
- We got to Vegas too early to check into the hotel, so we went to the Stardust to play. I had a little over $300.00 with me and had written up a schedule for how much I could lose per hour. I went to a crap table, bet $32.00 across, and immediately lost on a seven-out. I thought, "Okay, that's all I can lose for the next three hours. Time to go sit in the keno lounge." After about a half hour of Las Vegas's fastest and most exciting game, keno, I thought, "Ah, what the hell. I might as well go play some more." One hour and ten attempts at winning "$32.00 across"* later, I had lost my entire bank. Keep in mind that we hadn't even checked into the hotel yet. In what was to become one of the classic moments from Vegasdom, I found Paul in the poker room at the Stardust and called to him from behind the ropes: "Paul, I need to go to Sears."
- While playing craps at Circus Circus, Paul was on a pretty good roll, but when he threw the dice he kept hitting the mirror that was on the stickman's side of the inside of the table. They asked him to try to throw more down the center of the table, so Paul proceeded to throw both dice completely off the table and right at this woman's head. I can't recall if they hit her or not.
*After a while this was met with expressions of disgust from the dealers.
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