MOON LAS VEGAS

Moon Handbooks give you the tools to make your own choices, with
• Can't-miss sights, activities, restaurants, and accommodations, marked with
• Suggestions on how to plan a trip that's perfect for you, including:
   The Best of Vegas
   Luck Be a Lady
   Rat Pack Retro
   24-Hour Party Scene
   High Rollers
   Beyond the Glitz
• 7 detailed and easy-to-use maps
• The firsthand experience and unique perspective of author Rick Garman

Moon Las Vegas
2nd Edition
Rick Garman
ISBN 1-59880-062-0
ISBN-13 978-1-59880-062-3
$17.95
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Rick Garman was 14 when he first visited Las Vegas. He vividly remembers standing behind his mother as she played a slot machine at Circus Circus, when an intimidating casino attendant leaned down from her perch above the slot carousel and said, “You can’t be here, little man!” Those who know him will verify that he doesn’t take well to being told what he can and cannot do. Once Rick turned 21 and could no longer be denied access to the slots, he returned to Vegas to make up for lost time and has been in love with the city ever since. 

Travel writing happened almost by accident. Although he had written a couple of award-winning plays, Rick had never dreamed that he could transfer his adoration of Las Vegas to any type of a career. But then a good friend of his received an assignment to write a major Las Vegas guidebook. Knowing Rick spent way too much time there, she signed him up to help (blackmail may have been involved) and the co-written Frommer’s Las Vegas was published in 1997. The following year Rick wrote The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vegas and his travel writing career was solidified.

He segued into the wonderful world of the Internet in 1998, launching Vegas4Visitors.com, a travel planning site that has gone on to be one of the most respected resources for Las Vegas information on the web. His weekly column of news and reviews is featured on the site and syndicated to dozens of other outlets, such as the websites for KNBC in Los Angeles, WNBC in New York, and WMAQ in Chicago.