Rather than tell you what to expect, go and do these things. Move into an apartment. Buy and live in a free standing house. Work off the strip. Work on the strip. Take a couple of courses at UNLV. Work a construction job for a while if possible. Eat cheap at a few casinos if possible. Eat fast food at big chains. Eat at some local places off the strip. For laughs, play golf at a PUBLIC course in July. Hike and snow ski at mt. Charleston. Pay someone to take you out on lake Meade on a fancy ski boat with a big V8 engine. Feel the wind on your face, in case you No longer have hair. Rent a sail boat large enough to spend the night on. Do so.
Buy a used dirt bike. Take it apart. Do a rebuild on it using those ridiculously over priced factory parts or go with JC Whitney. You live in the desert. Get out there. If you are over 40 buy a used off road vehicle. Do some work on it. Have someone help you that you can ride or drive with. Optional: convince the spouse to let you do the bike rebuild in the living room. The desert is miserably hot. You might even downscale this to a dirt bicycle. If you are a guy offer to pull up the carpet and paint the floor with garage floor paint, then buy new carpet when you're done!
This part assumes you are Christian. If you have a different faith, then apply the general idea of becoming involved in two different flavors. Join and attend a Catholic church. Attend some church functions. Get involved to a reasonable degree. Then join and attend a protestant church. Attend some church activities, maybe go on a retreat.
Initially dress like you always dress. Notice what people wear in the casinos. Pick a couple of looks that catch your eye. Then, when on the strip or downtown wear those clothes. Look at yourself in the mirror and think why do people do this?
Play blackjack and win. Think, I'm a winner, losing is for other people. Feel powerful and lucky. Then lose, feel small and vulnerable. Maybe just once lose every penny you have. Go in the big gold trimmed bathroom and look in the mirror. Feel betrayed and silly even stupid that you worked so hard for that money and you threw it away. Remember, when you go home that night It won't involve flying back to LA.
DO NOT drink excessively and stay completely away from drugs.
Tell your spouse, I just lost all our money. Then explain, I read this stupid blog and didn't tell you why we're doing all this, why we're here. Drink in the stunned disbelief. You what? By the way, do not lose the house or 401k. You are just doing this for the experience, remember ?
View the start of the Barstow to Vegas if possible. Take a helicopter ride to see the first half hour.
Go fishing below Hoover dam. Angle only for the lunkers.
Do other stuff as you wish or feel led. Feel the lust. Feel the greed. Feel the loneliness. My God, Feel something.
Oh, I almost forgot. Good Luck.
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