But first, was there any movement on Ukraine-Russia peace talks?  Well, there is this  guitar duo .  Have you seen  Zelensky, Putin and Trump entertaining  as three tenors?  Watch  We Run the World . Four of my favorite cities are Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Honolulu. We are here in Vancouver, and this stop has been mostly wet.  But I've been here around a half a dozen times, and, aside from rain and cold, this city has much to offer. Our previous trip in October of last year began in Seattle, where we caught the Norwegian Encore for a 39-day cruise through the Panama Canal to Southampton, UK.  I've also been here at least 6 time, the first for the Seattle World Expo in 1962. The Encore's first stop was in San Francisco.  The San Francisco Bay area is my second home. Graduated from Stanford University. Worked at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View on the Search Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Spent two summers at the ...

When I first left Honolulu for California in 1958, our state population was 650,000.   Metro Las Vegas only had 75,000 people.  Today, Hawaii has 1.43 million people and Greater Las Vegas is twice our size, soon to hit 3 million people.   While Hawaii will soon top out at 10 million visitors/year, Las Vegas has historically received 40 million annual tourists. The city of Las Vegas has a population of 660,00, while Henderson, 16 miles away ( and part of greater Las Vegas ), has 330,000, making it the second largest city in the state.  Reno, not part of Greater Las Vegas, has 269,000 people and is #3. Some history: People began living in this general area from over 10,000 years ago, with Paiutes coming around 700 AD. Mexican scout  Rafel Rivera  in 1829 was the first non-native American visitor, and soon thereafter, this site was named Las Vegas, Spanish for meadows. The Battle of the Alamo for Texas independence from Mexico occurred in 1836, leading to our ...