Anyone who has visited Las Vegas knows just how expansive the strip is. My first night there I decided to walk from one end to the other stopping in every casino. I am a great walker and set on my way starting at the Stratosphere. Well, as you can guess I didn't get very far. It is really a bit misleading when you look down the strip. You see a neat row of casinos but what you can 't really tell is just how big they are. It takes about 20 minutes to just walk by or through a casino! It is impossible to hit all of them on the same evening. In fact, when I would go out I would usually focus on four places - two next to each other and two across the street. Even that was a lot of walking.
Well it seems that many young people now are not even bothering to try to hoof it around.
This story tells how 20 somethings are the new booming market in Las Vegas for motorized scooter rentals. Those little carts, once used only by little old ladies from Pasadena, are now all the rage for party goers unwilling to walk from casino to casino.
Simon Lezama, 27-year-old tourist from Odessa, Texas, drives his electric mobility scooter at the Riviera hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Friday, May 18, 2007. "It was all the walking," Lezama said on his red Merits Pioneer 3. Lezama, a trim and fit-looking restaurant manager from Odessa, Texas, rented it on day three of his five-day vacation, "and now I can drink and drive, be responsible and save my feet."
