A year or so ago I went to Fort Lauderdale just for a weekend. I ended the weekend by going to dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe before the airport. The Hard Rock Cafe is in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, and as I was eating my Messi burger there, my flight was canceled.I thought I'd stay at the hotel because I was right at a hotel, but unfortunately there was a soccer tournament at the time so there were no rooms.
I'd always wanted to go back, so in August I went back just for one day, 24 hours. Flew in at 12 noon Saturday, left at 12 noon Sunday, and gambled for only a couple hundred dollars. By the end of the month the hotel had sent me a mailer saying that they wanted to give me $120 in food and $150 in slot money for a complimentary stay. I thought it was a condo thing or something like that but nope, they gave me a weekend for free so I went. I won $1,700. They gave me another weekend for free so I went back and I won $4,000 and then lost it, quite literally. I won two hand pays so they gave me $2,000 in cash, twice, and then I put it in my bag. When I went to get my pills out of my bag, the envelope fell out and security cameras caught someone taking the envelope off the bench I was sitting on and walking straight out of the casino with it.
This walk is part of my next little casino adventure as I've been offered 2 nights free at the Hard Rock Hotel in Bristol, Virginia, a place I did not know existed until they offered me the stay. On the morning of the walk, I'll fly to Atlanta, rent a Mercedes, which for some reason was the cheapest car, drive to Rome, do the walk, do some other stuff up there, drive back down to Atlanta, and fly to Bristol.
Donate if you want to. I'm going to donate a share of the money I didn't lose, win the walk, and then go shuffle around a casino, willfully ignoring the fact that one of the pills I take for the shakes might also encourage compulsive behavior.