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Saturday, August 23, 2014

My Twenty-five memorable places

Here is a list of 25 memorable places and events for me. Each could take pages to explain. What is YOUR list like? What makes traveling memorable to YOU?

1. Watching fireflies from the porch of an Amish farmhouse in Lampeter, PA.
2. Watching the sunset from the rooftop garden of the Hotel Diana in Rome.
3. Attending worship at St. Martin In The Field, London.
4. Taking a small car ferry across the James River toward Jamestown, Virginia.
5. Standing in the pulpit of St. Giles Church in Edinburgh, Scotland.
6. Returning from a nearly endless hike, without water, at Smith Rock, Oregon.
7. Going to the top of the Peach Tree Tower in Atlanta, GA.
8. Seeing the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.
9. Seeing the art we had only seen in books at the Uffizi in Florence and The Victoria and Albert in London.
10. Spending a whole day in the Tower of London.
11. Working for a week on the Navajo Nation at Leupp, Arizona.
12. The color of the water at Lake Peyto, Alberta, Canada.
13. Talking politics to a young man in Scotland who knew more about American government than I did.
14. Killer whale watching in a small boat off of Roche Harbor, British Colombia, Canada.
15. Hiking to the entrance to Dingle Harbor in Ireland.
16. Having a drink at the top of the Space Needle in Seattle.
17. Having our picture taken at the top of Passo Giau in the Dolomites.
18. Getting lost in Liechtenstein.
19. Boarding the train for California at Poughkeepsie, New York.
20. "Crashing" a wedding at Basilica St. Maria degu Angeli e de Martri, Rome.
21. Dinner at the Shasta Royal Inn, July 24, 1967.
22. Afternoon tea at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton Lakes, Canada
23. Parasailing on Lake Tahoe, CA/NV.
24. Having a real English meat pie at the shop on Rathburn Street near University of London.
25. Watching my daughters fishing off a pier in the Mississippi near Burlington, Iowa.

Entrance to Dingle Harbor, Ireland
(...more lists to come.)

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