Las Vegas hotel room -- $20

When was the last time you got a hotel room for $20 anywhere? That's a 2 and a 0. $20. Let alone in Vegas, the land of luxury and stiffing the tourist. I'm not saying it is a nice hotel room. It's one of the run down old school hotels on the North Strip, far away from the Bellagio and the new Wynn. But it was $20.

The last time I was in Vegas I was riding around in a limo, picking $500 bottles of wine from the cellar and on the guest list at the Palms. This time, I am a girl on a budget. Limo's and expensive wine, yeah..... not so much. That's not what this trip is about. This trip is about independance and adventure and experiencing a different side of life. Like $20 dollar hotel rooms.

Last night after dinner I was hanging out at the bar in the Sahara (yes, that's where I stayed) trying to gamble as slowly as possible so I could milk the free drinks (really bad red wine) when a very interesting scene began to unfold in the Kashmir lounge. There was a sixties cover band playing, complete with skinny striped pants and ruffled tuxedo shirts, and a very interesting mix of characters on and around the dance floor. I had just hit two four of a kinds in five minutes at video poker ($200 can go a long way on a road trip like this) so I decided to take a look. I thought I had landed in..... I don't even know where.

There was one guy dancing on the dance floor (even during the breaks in the set), there was the guy with the long hair trying to freak every female in the lounge, there was the tall skinny white couple with thier pants up to their chest and the obese midwestern couple in jean shorts and oversized t-shirts. It was an absolute cross section of society and everyone was drunk and having fun. I stuck out like a sore thumb, the girl at the bar playing video poker with her laptop chatting on Facebook. They must have thought I was the strange one.

I stayed for about an hour or so but couldn't take it anymore so I went up to my room to order something to eat through room service. But wait, I forgot.... I'm in a $20 hotel room. No room service.