Shade your eyes, stretch high-up on your tippy-toes, and look west… A bit farther…past your back yard… Up and over the Rocky Mountains... Past Las Vegas glimmer… Over to the massive, distant, piece of land geographically sandwiched between the Sierra Nevada Mountain range and the Pacific Ocean. That state that fills news headlines with surreal stories of superstars and surfers, hippies and snowboarders, celebrities and computer-geek millionaires. A place where you can swim in the ocean, get lost in the desert, snap pictures of the rich-and-famous, and pick an avocado all in the same day. The...