Highlights -

walking around town taking in the sights, sounds, and smells
meeting and hanging out with John from Turkey
touring the casinos: The Wynn (my favorite), Grand Lisboa, MGM Grand and The Sands
winning a few dollars at Sic Bo and War
meeting the friendly guys from Nepal

Discoveries -

just because The Lonely Planet says room rates are triple the [...]

Our last day in Macau was rather low key. We ran into some Nepali guys who were vacationing in China. They were quite friendly, and spoke fairly good English between them all. I exchanged e-mails with one of them, hoping a little insider help could benefit me in [...]

 
Sleeping late almost every day is one of my favorite aspects of vacation. Even when my bed is as hard as a rock, the ability to schedule one’s day around sleep is wonderful. John had to wake up early to attend to his visa and Adam was still out like [...]

We all slept until at least noon on Sunday. I got up first because my bed had the consistency of concrete. I couldn’t figure out how to heat up the water for the shower so I skipped one for the first time in weeks. I grabbed a pork dumpling lunch at a [...]

I passed up several opportunities to visit Las Vegas with friends as I saved for this trip, so I decided to check out the Eastern version, Macau, an hour’s ferry ride southwest of Hong Kong with Adam. The side trip would also allow me to earn another stamp in my passport.
I’m not big on [...]