California has a land area of over 155,000 square miles with almost 850 miles of coastline and beaches, 25,000,000 acres of desert, mountains, including Mount Whitney which at 14,505 feet above sea level is second tallest mountain in continental United States, numerous lakes, rivers and creeks, forests of all types, thousands of campgrounds and RV parks, beautiful scenery with plants and flowers of almost every type, amusement and theme parks like Disneyland and it's companion California Adventure Park, Knott's Berry Farm, Movieland Wax Museum, Legoland, Sea World, Universal Studios and Magic Mountain, zoos like San Diego Zoo And Wild Animal Park, museums of every type, numerous art galleries and antique shops, places of worship for every religion, restaurants to fit every ethnic and cultural taste, motels, inns and hotels to fit every pocketbook, from very inexpensive to extremely luxurious, gaming casinos, nightclubs and comedy clubs, some of most beautiful golf courses in world, most of which are playable year round, some of best wineries in world and shopping centers and areas with almost every type and brand of merchandise you can think of.

Virtually year round, whether you like climate hot, warm, cool or cold you can find a place to suite your taste.

Man oh man, it was my first visit ever, and let me tell y’all, if there was ever a town I fell in love with at first glance, it’s Las Vegas! It has The Brotherhood’s name written all over it, in fact, if there ever was ever a town that I’ll need to visit regularly for rest of my life after only one visit, it’s Las Vegas!

I went out there for a speaking engagement related to some of my writing activities. Even though I spoke for only twenty minutes in a tiny conference room in one of big strip hotels, I can now say, for all eternity, that “I’ve played Vegas!” I was out there for all of two days, which now makes me a certified Vegas authority. And because I’m now so knowledgeable, here’s some unique things y’all can expect to see if you ever make a trip out there:

1. Some huge hotels - I thought I had seen some large hotels in places like New York City and Chicago, but nothing compares to these big mamas out in Vegas. You have Luxor, which literally looks like a pyramid with a light shining out of top. You have Mandalay Bay, well, actually there are two Mandalay Bays now, and they both have copper colored windows in their rooms. They also have eleven acres of swimming pools and a huge shark aquarium. The owner of Mandalay Bay obviously likes fish, and probably also likes having a little something on property to help keep guests in line. Let’s also not forget Caesar’s Palace, which is huge, and Venetian, which is even larger. There’s one place called Excaliber that looks like a castle because one actually sits right at entrance to it, Paris Las Vegas has a replica of Eiffel Tower standing right next to it, one called Stratosphere has an 1100 foot tower built close by (get this, there’s a roller coaster on top of it), and grandest Vegas hotel of them all is Bellagio. Collectively, these have to be most unique hotels in world.