The thrilling conclusion to the narration of the 450-mile drive between Las Vegas and Reno.

I'm considering a car trip where I hit both Reno and Las Vegas. What is the drive like between the two cities? Is it scenic or is it monotonous? Do any of the towns along the way have anything interesting for a driver passing through?

In place of today’s previewed question about hotel key cards and identify theft, we’re running a different security-oriented question. The reason for the substitution is that this one’s topical, so we wanted to run the answer while it was still in the news. We’ll run the key card answer on 5/7/09. This question was also submitted by a journalist whose work we greatly admire, so we wanted to help out with the answer to his query asap – and we got a QoD out of it in the process!

Whenever my wife and I visited Las Vegas we always ate at the Garlic Cafe. Whatever happened to it? They Closed and never reopened. Their garlic ice cream was the best I have ever tasted.

How did Laughlin come to be? It seems an odd place – a bunch of high-rise hotels in the middle of nowhere.

When a casino is placed for sale, how do they determine the value of it? Do they go by cash flow or land value or what? If its cash flow why would somebody like MGM consider selling something that brings in money and helps pay the bills?

I have stayed at the Wynn/Encore the last few times I visited LV. I had a view of the golf course on all occasions and despite good weather never saw a soul on the course. Who can play there, how much are the fees and how many rounds of golf have been played in the last 12 months on the course?

I will be visiting Las Vegas and was looking for your opinion on a show that is filled with showgirls. The classic Vegas showgirls with dancing, big costumes, and over the top headpieces.

My co-workers and I have been expressing a bit of confusion over the offered and rejected brothel tax. Perhaps you could shed some light for those of us who don’t have a firm grasp on the topic. If the brothels want to pay taxes, why does the government refuse?

We read that there is a place in Vegas that has fried Twinkies. If so where it is ?