Is there any travel term as pejorative as “tourist trap”? It disses the attraction and it disses the doofuses (doofi?) who go there. Yeah, well, “tourist trap” is in the eyes of the beholder. We’d like to tell you about some places that others may scorn but we gladly allow to trap us. The signs [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nevada’
Some People Call These Tourist Traps
Posted in Kitsch Factor, tagged Elvis Presley, Graceland, Las Vegas, Liberace, Liberace Museum, Memphis, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, South of the Border, Tennessee on August 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Nevada’s Brothels Only Want To Help
Posted in News Around the Nation, State-by-State, Uncategorized, tagged brothels, Michelle Cottle, Nevada on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tourism and other forms of revenue are dropping off in Nevada and so the state’s brothels are offering to help out by paying their fair share of taxes, the New York Times reports. The state is not jumping to accept. Over at “The New Republic,” Michelle Cottle read the story and was intrigued to note [...]
