I booked our Airbnb in December for a vacation in July. I have to tell you that was a long time to anxiously wait for what I hoped would be an incredible family vacation. In fact, this was my first booking with Airbnb and I was pleasantly surprised about how easy it was to book … Read more
Just a few miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada is the pseudo-ghost town of Nelson, Nevada. I label it a “pseudo” ghost town because unlike most ghost towns, Nelson actually has a few hundred residents. Most of the imagery from your visit there will be from the El Dorado Canyon Mine Tours operation just two … Read more
Check out a picture gallery of Seven Magic Mountains on the Full Metal Traveler website and subscribe to the FMT podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Ten miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, seven towers cut through the desert sky. They stand taller than one might think if you’re simply driving by on Interstate 15, … Read more
Internationally renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains is a large-scale site-specific public art installation located near Jean Dry Lake and Interstate 15, approximately ten miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada. Comprised of seven towers of colorful, stacked boulders standing more than thirty feet high, Seven Magic Mountains is situated within the Ivanpah Valley adjacent to Sheep Mountain and the McCullough, Bird Spring, and Goodsprings ranges of mountains. A creative expression of human presence in the desert, the art punctuates the Mojave with a poetic burst of form and color.
February 22, 1919. Pebble Beach Golf Links officially opens. For the last 100 years it has been widely regarded as one of the most beautiful courses in the world, becoming the first public golf course to be selected as the number-1 golf course in America by Golf Digest in 2001. But when it first opened, … Read more
The El Presidente is a decidedly Cuban cocktail, perfect on cool days in the Spring or Fall… or hell, whenever.
Like the telephone, Model T, or cassette tapes, it’s a cocktail whose best days have passed. There are very, very few bartenders who can make it anymore. Most wouldn’t even try, instead meeting you with a blank stare and a beer menu.
A moment of truth: I’ve had variations of this drink, but who can know what the authentic taste is unless you find yourself in an old throwback bar in Havana? For that reason alone, Cuba just moved up my travel list.
It became the preferred drink of the Cuban upper class and those Americans who could afford to skirt the laws of Prohibition (1920-1933) by visiting the Las Vegas of the Caribbean: Havana, Cuba.
Author Wayne Curtis, who wrote an excellent article on the disappearing act of correctly mixed cocktails, called Prohibition the dark ages for drinks in America where “Americans not only lost the knowledge of making sophisticated drinks, but they forgot what a good cocktail tasted like.”
“Americans not only lost the knowledge of making sophisticated drinks, but they forgot what a good cocktail tasted like.”
Most attribute Eddie Woelke with the creation of the drink, but like all good legends, no one is completely sure. Woelke supposedly named the drink for Cuban President Gerardo Machado, who reigned during most of the Prohibition years.
It made its way stateside and had a fun run where, I’m positive, most serious bartenders would have known this drink like he back of their hands. At least they would have known it as well as an Old Fashioned or Manhattan.
As noted, like any well traveled legendary drink, there are many variations depending on taste.
Some garnish with a twist of orange peel or a cherry or both. Some call strictly for Curacao. Others say Grand Marnier.
Cuba 2019. Photo credit: ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)Cuban President Gerardo MachadoEl PresidenteFull Metal Traveler Recipe
All I know is if you get the basics right, you’ll have one hell of a good cocktail, a story you can share at a party, and a call back to all lost and forgotten things.
Los Cabos is the area located on the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula and is made up of two towns: Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo. Today it is home to sprawling all-inclusive resorts, world-class restaurants, and private VIP getaways. It’s come a long way from its humble and often violent … Read more
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I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. When … Read more
I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. When … Read more
It’s said that inspiration is a temporary thing. We’re incapable of being or feeling “inspired” every hour of every single day. Daily life fills up with appointments, obligations, family time, work time, dog walking, cable company phone calls, internet surfing, social media posting. Before we know it a day has become a week, a week … Read more
All day, and each and every night, you can get your fix of gambling, booze, and just about anything else.
Beyond the gilded golden towers, mobs of tourists, and 99-cent margaritas, there are attractions waiting for those who live life with their adrenaline pedal pressed firmly down on the floor.
The list seems to be growing with each passing year, so this list will no doubt expand along with it, but for now, here are our votes for the top extreme attractions in Las Vegas in no particular order.
Mexico’s growing tourist destination offers plenty of natural beauty, history and… sales opportunities? What’s the best way to get around? How does the money conversion work? Is it safe? Questions answered.
I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. When I get to these places, I like to kick back and enjoy a good cocktail. But not just any cocktail. An Old Fashioned. In fact, fair or … Read more
I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. When … Read more
I always imagined that if I ever found myself sitting in the middle of an empty field, under the blazing sun, outside of Las Vegas, that something had gone horribly wrong and I was going to be the next occupant of one of the many talked-about but rarely found “holes in the desert.”
Instead, I was pleasantly surprised at this particular occasion, because I was at the 2019 Las Vegas Lights Fest. (It’s actually in Littlefield, Arizona, which is right outside Mesquite, Nevada, which itself, is an hour north of Las Vegas.)
There is plenty to love about this event and a few improvements that desperately need to happen if it’s going to be held in the same place any time in the future.
If you’ve traveled to or from a major airport in the U.S. within the last two years you’ve probably noticed the signs for “CLEAR” as you’ve stood in line wondering what you did wrong to deserve the TSA screening process.
Then, just when you’re about to lose it because you can’t figure out how much 3-ounces is and if you need to throw your half-eaten Chipotle burrito away, you see some jerk walk to the front of the line and head straight to the not-invasive-at-all pat downs and shoe inspections.
That particular jerk? Yeah, that’s me.
No, I didn’t bribe anyone and I’m not special in any way.
I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. When I get to these places, I like to kick back and enjoy a good cocktail. But not just any cocktail. An Old Fashioned. In fact, fair or … Read more
I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. I like to travel to places I find interesting, fully believing that not every trip needs to be an Instagrammable mountain pose followed by copy-and-pasted inspirational quote. When … Read more
