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The "Arizona", Pearl Harbor.

I was taken to the Memorial when my wife's company took us all to Hawaii for their annual sales meeting.

Odd part was going to see it with all the employees from Mitsubishi Electronics . A few had on the company t shirt... although most didn't know what the three diamond logo represented.

The Japanese with us seemed more respectful while the standard tourists were acting more like it was just another attraction on the island.







Several years ago my wife and I did a two week trip to Ireland. She had been there twice before and knew it better than I did . No real plans. Just a route that could be changed. Going off season made it a lot easier to change plans. When in Dublin we stayed with friends who lived there. Got the employee tour of Guinness As our friend was in a local band going into some of the local pubs was different than as a tourist. Best yet..it was St. Patrick's Day.

I found everyone to be very friendly. Not a big fan of any vacation not involving a beach but this was really worth it.

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (aka ANWR) right before whaling season when the polar bear have migrated in anticipation of eating the Inupiat's leftover whale meat.

My wife always wanted to go to see them in Churchill, Canada...until she found out the travel time on either train or small aircraft.
A dive buddy was from the area and after telling her there is not much threre as far as luxury accommodations she backed off a bit.

1: The Oregon coast from Florence to Newport on 101.

2: The Alpine Loop - SR92 (American Fork and Provo Canyons) Utah in late September.

Crater Lake Or.



Jim

No pics. Rather that it's less about the scenic and all about the complete visceral experience: US129, aka Tail of the Dragon. There are also a lot of great technical driving and riding roads in the area, like Cherohala Skyway:



Not my pic, but it definitely gets the point across. These roads assuredly give certain favorite California two-lanes a run for their money, though Angeles Crest Highway and HWY 36 up by Red Bluff are not to be missed.

The Hermitage. Really needs about 3 days, can be more, if you like art. (Don’t know how to post photos)

I was going to list Monument Valley, but I was 20 minutes too slow.

Arches National Park, UT

Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas. Sorry I’m ignorant when it comes to posting photos.

Great Wall of China

I loved driving Route 66 back in fall '11. I guess that's not really a place. How about the Cadillac Ranch?

The Barber Motorsports Museum.

Santorini, in Greece's Cyclades Islands. I'll post an image when I can.

Sedona, AZ. No matter which way you turn, there's a beautiful view.

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My wife always wanted to go to see them in Churchill, Canada...until she found out the travel time on either train or small aircraft.
A dive buddy was from the area and after telling her there is not much threre as far as luxury accommodations she backed off a bit.

I'd bet a fair sum that Churchill is the lap of luxury compared to ANWR. Largest village is 250ish people and there are two "motels" that are more like construction camps. Zero restaurants so you eat every meal from motel's cafeteria.

On a clear day, the scenery is spectacular and guides (real guides not some kid on summer break) that will take you out on boats to the barrier islands to photograph polar bear. They'll also take you by vehicle to the boneyard where they drag the whale carcasses after they've stripped most of the meat.

Not sure you can even fly there any more commercially as the only rural airline that flew there shutdown all aviation in April, filed for bankruptcy same day, and today a judge just approved the bankruptcy asset sale of all assets.

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I've wanted to go since High school
(1973)

Whatever degree of art fan I was before I got there, I was even more of one aftet I left.

The scale is something that never quite translates in books and on television/etc. Some famous and otherwise incredible pieces are especially large, and the depth... the depth of field some of these painters achieved is something you can only really see in person, too, and it's impressive. Paintings that look like you could reach or walk into them, oil or whatever on camvas, done by sun or candlelight, a long time ago. Decades to centuries old.

The Egyptian stuff is extraordinary, as is the Greco Roman.

I love that place. A day is barely enough.

I hope you get to go one day.

I've always wanted to travel more, guess I've taken things for granted, half the places listed (US only) I've actually already been.

Now, I'm thinking I've been pretty blessed in life, at the same time added many places to the 'to do list'.

Taroko Gorge Taiwan

Dresden, Germany: the entire rebuilt old city is beautiful, but the must-see is the Green Vault, or Grünes Gewölbe, with the unbelievably exquisite art treasures belonging to Augustus the Strong of Poland and Saxony; the museum, opened to the public in 1723, contains the largest "treasure" collection in Europe.
No photo can do justice to the jaw-dropping experience, but you can see many of the treasures online.

The road from Vancouver, BC up to Destruction Bay in the mid- to late fall.

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Santorini, in Greece's Cyclades Islands. I'll post an image when I can.

Classic (as in textbook) example of early urban planning, killer food and topless beaches - definitely on the list.