If gambling and/or cocktailing is not your thing, there are plenty of ways to get dopamine hits from vast array of art and tech experiences in Las Vegas. Sure, there are Dale Chihuly glass sculptures canvasing the ceiling at the Bellagio and blue chip paintings dispersed throughout the city in its grand casinos, but Vegas seems to be on the cutting edge of combining art and tech, only second to Dubai.

Until 2024, I had not experienced a New England summer — its clear blue, massive skies, rocky coastline, and bustling waters — but had seen many paintings of the area, particularly Maine, by admired regional artists as Adele Lemm and internationally acclaimed artists as Edward Hopper. I grew up in the Mississippi Delta and attended Ole Miss. It wasn’t until my mid twenties while living in New York City that I heard the term, “summering.” In Manhattan that term, among my peers, meant shared summer house in the Hamptons. When I moved to Charleston “summering” reemerged and meant long week stays in the North Carolina mountains or in a quaint port town along the New England coastline, most easily accessible by sailboats from the Charleston harbor.