Something about this trip to Las Vegas made me feel that I was getting out of touch with the lifestyle of today.  While the pandemic made travel difficult, we have been on three cruises during the past year or so, with a couple of international trips.  So what made this more recent experience particularly humbling? To begin, on the flight from Honolulu to San Francisco, everyone in business class seemed to be prepared with bluetooth earphones to listen to their TV screen.  Never occurred to me to bring something like that.  It took a couple of hours to gently inquire about the audio options.  The steward said, oh, here is an earphone, and this is where you connect.  Plus, they did not retrieve this ear plug device, so I had one for the next flight to Las Vegas, and back home. There were 100 channels linked to DIRECTV, close to being the equivalent of what is available at home.  There were also at least a hundred films available. When I got to the Circa Resort, after check-in, getting t

  I haven't been to Las Vegas for around 5 years.  I have historically stayed at the California Hotel, or sister properties of Boyd in the past because the price was low and food was essentially free. I'm here for five  days this time and picked the almost new Circa Resort and Casino.  When it opened late in 2020, it became the first all-new hotel in downtown Las Vegas in 40 years. Is only for adults. Has 777 rooms.  The adjacent California Hotel has 325 rooms. Said to have attempted to have the feel of hotels of the original Vegas, in that there are no kitschy themes, waterslides, and so forth, but has the technology of today. So much so that there is no phone in the room.  They rightly assume everyone coming to their hotel has a functional smart phone.  You need to use what looks sort of like an iPad to do everything.  No good for people like me. For example, I wanted to talk to the front desk to send someone up to show me how to plug in a device.  It took me half an hour to