When Pam Minick was just a young girl in Las Vegas, riding horses up and down an empty desert road, she never imagined that road would one day be an extension of the Las Vegas Strip, or that riding horses would lead her to a busy, successful career.

Minick, who graduated from Valley High School in 1971, recently returned to the area where she used to live and ride -- as a youth her family resided near Sunset and Bermuda roads -- but now things are a lot different.