Jeff Pickering was outside the Aquarius casino, holding a 24-ounce can of hard seltzer and wearing a button-down, short-sleeve shirt with an unmistakable theme: Vegas.
The retro-style shirt had the iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign on it, along with dice, playing cards, cocktail glasses and the stylish “Stardust” name from the long-gone hotel’s neon sign along the Strip.
Pickering, however, had no plans to visit the famed gambling mecca roughly 100 miles from Laughlin, the much smaller, quieter and cheaper casino town he was visiting from his home in Washington state.
“The prices in Vegas are out of control,” said his wife, Karlena Pickering.
