Cirque of Towers - Wind Rivers WY. (just over Jackass Pass - Continental Divide)

Living in Montana and having either motorcycled, driven or flown over a LOT of MT, WY, ID,CO,AZ & UT, I'd still have to say Glacier NP is my #1 favorite place. Especially 30 plus years back before it was inundated with visitors as it is today.

The red rock country in southern Utah, like Monument Valley and Zion NP are a close second.

Several years back, we visited Great Britain and drove up to Pennan a little fishing village in Scotland. This village was featured in a little 1980's movie, that is one of my favorites; "Local Hero". It was virtually unchanged since the movie. Spending an afternoon there, was in a word...magical.

Visiting the Marine Memorial in DC as a kid with my Dad (who was an Iwo Jima Vet) as well as Arlington was very special for me.

Visited Maui and I liked the tropical paradise end of it.

Spent several weeks in South Africa 20 years back. Enjoyed the culture and the people.

Definitely most isolated and up there for most beautiful and interesting was a rafting trip on the Alatna River in the Gates of the Arctic National Park when I was in Boy Scouts. We flew commercial to Fairbanks, then small planes to Bettles, then another hop in little bitty float planes. The guides said our group of fewer than 40 people was about half the people that visit that part of the park in an average year. No roads for miles and miles in any direction.

Beautiful: The Alps.
Interesting: Europe.
Fascinating: Lake Superior.
Nasty: Mexico
Out Of The Way: Pine Stump Junction. And Crisp Point Light.

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Pompeii, Italy. Wish I had more time to spend there. Absolutely an amazing place to get a glimpse of what things were like.

Definitely on my bucket list, I follow
Pompeii - Parco Archeologico on the FB, they post jaw dropping stuff often

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Beautiful and Out of the Way

Santorini, Greece

Dixie, Idaho Pop 24

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Jerome Arizona out of the way spot

Matamoras boystown jail was pretty nasty

Lake Okeechobee checks the rest of my boxes

Sarandi del Yi, Uruguay. I lived there for about 3 months. It's about 14x14 blocks, and definitely out of the way!

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Most out of the way? Johnston Island in mid-Pacific.

Most interesting? New Zealand.

Most culturally challenging? Iran.

Most beautiful? Can't make a choice -- too many.

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Out of the way - Borneo (5 flights, 40 elapsed hours of travel)

Interesting - too many to count

Culturally challenging - Egypt (pretty much the whole Nile corridor)

Beautiful - too many to count

I don't travel too much. The most exotic place I've been is Tortola.

The nastiest place is Bridgeport, CT.

Exotic: Kawai, HI. To spend time at the beach in beautiful surf, getting in the car and driving up through the grand canyons of the west and up into the clouds to the highest point on the island. Very exotic.

Beautiful: So many beautiful places around the world. A few that come to mind are; San Juan Islands, White Cliffs of Dover, almost any place in northern New England in the fall, green fields of Scotland/Ireland, Isle of Capri waters.

Interesting: World class museums of Chicago. Despite being an armpit of a city politically, the museums (and restaurants) are hard to beat.

Fascinating: Agreed, Pompeii and my first and only visit to Japan in the early 80's. I saw things I'd never seen before (one stall automatic car wash, vending machines that sold everything). Eventually the states would have these things. Singapore could be in this list too! World class and around the corner, old world/third world.

Nasty and out of the way place has to be Madagascar! They would trade anything for a bar of soap! Honorable mention: Freetown, Sierra Leone; Douala, Cameroon; Balikpapan, Indonesia.

For the simple life I lead, mine was the parts of three days and two nights spent aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) as a civilian engineer working for McDonnel Douglas. My group flew aboard in a C-2 Greyhound and did an arrested landing. The Roosevelt was cruising off the east coast doing carrier quals and we got to observe many cats and traps, as well as tour the ship. Later, walked off after docking back at Norfolk.

I've visited probably 17 countries in my lifetime.

The most nasty was Entebbe and Kampala, Uganda. Life expectancy was 30 years of age. Beautiful countryside, but the poverty and unsanitary conditions were appalling. I happened to be there during El Niño and they had the worst lake fly hatch in decades. The people were friendly. I flew over Lake Victoria and observed more impoverished communities on the islands in the lake.

Some of the best food I've ever had was in Korea. I really like tabletop Korean BBQ.




Singapore is my second home. I've probably spent about 12 weeks there over the last decade. It's a wonderful place with friendly people. The food quality is amazing and even the tap water is safe to drink. I have a church and personal friends that I visit when I go there. I always go for business, but it's always a pleasure. Food is very cheap in the food courts and the public transportation is very efficient.

I happened to be in Singapore for the 2012 Formula 1 races. My hotel was inside the race track. Singapore always has a night race and that was the grande finale. During the three days that the course is being used, many different classes of cars use the track for three days. My camera wasn't good enough to catch pictures of the actual final race, but I got pictures of the fireworks that went off when Sebastian Vettel crossed the finish line. I was watching it from my balcony and on live TV.

My hotel (The Marina Mandarin) was at the end of the longest straight away of the course. Cars hit the end of that stretch at 180 MPH. It was amazingly loud!


Marina Bay from my hotel room. The sharpest hairpin turn of the race is on this pic...


This was the moment Sebastian Vettel won.. You can see the full stretch of the long straight away in this pic.


Japan was the place I went to feel completely lost. Again, good people and a very interesting culture with lots of pride.

The most mystifying, as far as history goes, was Aqaba and Petra, Jordan. I was there the day my daughter was born and I didn't know she was being born at the time. That was the first place that I ever ate a schwarma. I took a one-day tour of Petra. For those of you that don't know what Petra is, It's the place where Indiana Jones finds The Holy Grail in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Walking through the canyon and seeing "The Treasury" peek through the passage as you enter was an amazing experience.

Countries I don't ever want to visit again:
-Taiwan (boring)
-Brazil (too much crime)
-Thailand (crime, scams, prostitution)
-Uganda (filty place)
-UAE
-Bahrain
-Kuwait
-Senegal
-Mexico

Tony.

So many to choose from. Perhaps driving all day across the center of Iceland between two massive glaciers on a rough 4WD road. Also diving deep down Bloody Bay Wall off Little Cayman island.

Hawaii / kauai

Most beautiful...A trip up the Tracy Arm Fjord in Alaska.
Haven't been all over the world, but much of the scenery was breath taking.

There are so many places that would qualify, but I'm going to have to say Havasu Falls on the Havasupai Indian rez in Arizona. You can take a chopper down, or ride a mule, but I went old school a few times and hiked down.

You have to plan almost a year in advance to get your overnight permits to camp. then comes an 8 mile downhill slog to the reservation, which if I remember correctly is the last place in the U.S. to get their mail delivered by mule. Once on the rez you feel like you've stepped into a third world country. From there you hike another two miles down to Havasu Falls, a 100 foot blue waterfall shooting right out of the red rock. Follow the creek bed another mile and you come to Mooney Falls. A nearly 200 foot waterfall with the gnarliest assortment of chains, rotten ladders, and decayed rope over slippery rocks to help you to the bottom.

I've spent 10 nights down there. It's breathtaking.

Nasty and out of the way? Sounds like Waco.

It isn't on the way to anywhere, and well . . .

The San Blas Islands off the Atlantic coast of Panama. Friendly natives, great waters, and iguanas that weren't picky who they crawled on.