Fickled (is that a good word?)

 Memorable Automobiles ride:

 1998 Sherry drove our Saturn thru a tree in N. California

Now, for today:

Sherry and I have enjoyed traveling. We are asked often, “What has been the most interesting place y’all have visited?” Tough, even impossible to say!

 

Upon seeing many places new to me I have thought, ‘this is the most beautiful place I have ever seen.’ At times when I said that, just days before I had said that about something else.

 In 1983 after talking to Sherry’s sister Colette and her hubby who had never traveled over 200 miles from Charlotte, NC, we decided to take 2-4 weeks off and just drive across the USA. An example of my thoughts while Camping on the rim of the Grand Canyon, ‘This is the most spectacular site I have ever seen.’

Then the Pacific Ocean Coast line, WOW. Oh, and Camping in Yosemite, 

The most beautiful sites I had ever seen.... THEN we drove across the Rockies, the Most beautiful views you can imagine.  We had never seen snow that you could enjoy in short sleeves. So we threw some snow balls on the top of the Rockies.

That trip rekindled our desire to live on the road.

I have finally decided after the hundreds of the ‘Most beautiful sites I have ever seen’, that it is the moment and the amazement of the beauty at that slice of time. I did not know another way to express my feelings.

(From the net cannot find my pictures of Lake Louise, Banff Nat'l Pk Alberta Canada!)

Seeing Lake Louise for the first time, then the beauty of the Yukon. I cannot express my feelings of seeing a Moose running beside me on the ALCAN Highway, much less the Canadian Rockies. At the time we were there, we had already seen a lot of the world. BUT you cannot imagine a small town boy’s feelings of standing beside a lake in the backwoods of Alaska at MIDNIGHT and watching fish jump like it was noontime.

WE will never again see many of the sites we have enjoyed, but that desire to see another ‘Most beautiful site in the world’ always hangs ‘right in the middle of my mind!’ We know there are absolutely ‘millions of them left.’

(sometimes it is just relaxing (This picture shot on Lake Eustis in 2004 not 1/2 mile from our trailer now in Leesburg))

Niagara from the net (can't find mine)

I remember seeing Niagara Falls the first time, I thought after watching it for a long time, “How can that continue and NOT run out of water?”  But then how can ‘Old Faithful’ out in Yellowstone keep such good time? WE have seen SPRINGS! Many produce millions of gallons an hour and become rivers immediately?

Giant Redwood tree

What is the most amazing place Y'all have been? I cannot answer that with ONE place. That is a hard question.

Soooo,  What was one of the ‘Most impressive place (thing)’ you have enjoyed?

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PS: Many of the sites I mentioned some of you said, “I remember that!” Oh yes and I smiled at Tarryterre’s entry when she told of a strap breaking on her purse as she toured the Biltmore Mansion. We have passed the Mansion many times but never stopped. Sherry says we need to FIX that! ;-)

 My siblings Shirley, Jr & Odis were happy to remain where they were planted. On the other hand Sister Kat and I, thrived on traveling.

 

I miss Robin Williams at times.