Back in the spring I posted a list of “50 Places I’m Glad I Got To See” (May 22nd). The more I looked at the list, the more I thought I left some out. Here are 25 more places I’m glad I got to see:
- Ahu Simle Temple and The Valley of the Kings on the Nile River
- The Cairo Museum – not well organized, but amazing
- Savannah and Charleston – the old south at its best
- The Panama Canal and Costa Rica
- Mendocino with all the water towers when it was full of art and jewelry galleries
- Tauck river boat on the Rhine and Moselle Rivers
- Russian landscape from Moscow to St. Petersburg
- Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca in Peru
- Hearst Castle and Cambria right here in California
10. Dubai and the Arabian Peninsula
11. Berlin – the old and the new, a charming city
12. Cruise across the Great Lakes
13. Cruise down the west coast of Africa
14. Barge trip in/around Dijon, France
15. San Francisco – any time
16. Zion, Bryce and Arches National Parks in Utah
17. Yosemite and Tahoe here in California
18. Israel – the history and the continuing struggle with their neighbors
19. The influence of three religions in Spain
20. Don Quixote windmills in Spain
21. Spending 24 hours at the Grand Canyon
22. Agrigento and Taormina in Sicily
23. Ching Le Terra in Italy
24. MesaVerde in southwest Colorado
25. The neon world of Las Vegas
With any luck, I’ll get to add at least 25 more.
Art, this relates to two of your prior blogs. On Nov. 6th you wrote that your “insurance company pays nothing until my costs exceed $2110 per calendar year,” and that, so far, you hand not reached that deductible. On Oct. 30th you listed your medical treatments including, among others, 2 pain management doctors, one physical medical doctor, 4 orthopedic surgeons, an MRI, CT scan, 2 back x-rays, an EMG (nerve) exam, and a partridge in a pear tree. All of that and you haven’t reached your $2110 deductible: what am I missing here? Dan