HENDERSON, Nev. -- Sure, you could stay on the Las Vegas Strip. You could have the sound of cha-chings pounding through your head as you cross a smoke-filled casino floor the morning after a long night of "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" shenanigans.
LAS VEGAS -- It's been 178 years since a New Mexican merchant found a spring surrounded by patchy greenery in the parched Mojave Desert and called it the Spanish word for "the meadows."
