I have several business trips to Vegas every year to attend tradeshows as an attendee, not as an exhibitor. Being from the East Coast, I love to get up at 5AM there, get a coffee and walk for two hours non-stop. I go in and out of casinos, walking through various mazes of connecting corridors and outside sidewalks. It is absolutely one of the most relaxing state of minds I achieve in life.
Then I go back to my room, do some work, go to the tradeshow until about 4, workout, eat dinner, gamble about 2 hours, go to bed about 9PM and repeat. Absolutely love it. One week in April/May and one week in September every year.
That's so funny because I do almost the exact same thing. My wife thinks I'm nuts. Each morning I'm there, I get up early and just take a long walk through as many casinos on the strip as I can. Sometimes I'm gone for three or four hours. During that time I don't stop to gamble but I'll stop for coffee and breakfast. I just walk and take it all in. That puts me in the right frame of mind for the rest of the day.