GOING WEST 2007 - Jim Colyer

West - Michael and I will see the new side of Las Vegas and go to the Grand Canyon and Sequoia National Park in California in 2007. He wants to stay at New York, New York. If I get a passport again, it will be with Michael. If we travel outside the U.S., it will be to make money, not to lose it. I see 3 trips: Washington, D.C., the Las Vegas area and Alaska. Vegas has changed since I was there in 1993. There are a number of new hotels: New York New York, Mandalay Bay, Bellagio, The Venetian, Paris Las Vegas and The Luxor. These exist for the purpose of making money for the people who own and operate them as do the older hotels. We will spend conservatively and have an experience consistent with what we need and want. My return to Las Vegas may coincide with my leaving Vanderbilt. I may rent an apartment for a month in Vegas in August, 2007. Got to manage money in Vegas. Can not gamble. Everybody wants money and everybody will take it if you are damn fool enough to give it to them. Be honest. Be yourself. Know what you are going to do and why. Have experiences consistent with your personality. Larry will be with me and Michael, at least part of the time. We will work things out. I will take Michael to the Grand Canyon and to Sequoia National Park in California. The Tucson Astronomical Society meets at the Grand Canyon for a star party each June. I am hoping the Las Vegas astronomy group gets together in the Valley of Fire for the Perseid meteor shower. I have not been through the Valley since 1979. I will show Michael Hoover Dam. Michael wants to go on to Hollywood and Rodeo Drive. He wants to see the Hollywood sign on the side of that hill. We may see Grauman's Chinese Theatre. We will do it.