That was my first trip to LV. My first trip across the Mississippi, 1980, for a conference there. It had been scheduled in SF but they had a hotel strike there so it was moved at the last minute. The company paid for the trip and put me up in Caesar's Palace, which I'm sure was the nicest hotel, if weird, I'd had ever been in. The conference rooms were about 66°F while outside was 115°F in the day. I presented a paper at the conference which was kind of pointless, but whatever. I came back to Cincy and got in my car and drove to NC to get married.
I only had one week of vacation because I only worked half a year.