Wow that's gorgeous B00mer. Living in ugly Las Vegas for so long I am not use to seeing such colour.
Actually, I don't know why you would dog Las Vegas, you're close to the Grand Canyon, Lake Mead, you have the High Desert and the Entertainment in Vegas. There is so much to do around Vegas.. Bolder/Hoover Dam.. I mean sh!t.. what isn't there to do?

Lake Mead Reserve, boating sailing... party, girls and booz.. (fatherhood 9 months later)

High Desert Pen.. (I deliver there) O.J. Simpson's temporary home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Desert_State_Prison_%28Nevada%29
