A few of my favorite places…

• Acadia National Park in Maine.
• The Four Corners area (Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico) – Mesa Verde, the Grand Canyon, the Valley of the Gods, Sangre de Cristo mountain range, the Canyonlands, Taos (esp. the Taos Pueblo), Los Alamos, D.H . Lawrence’s ranch, etc.
• The seas of clouds in the beautiful mountains of Taiwan. I was woefully under-prepared for the trek along the Southern Cross-Road Highway, but I’ll remember the beauty of it all my life.
• Any of the mini roller-coaster roads through the cornfields of Iowa.
• Berkeley campus.
• Killington Vermont – skiing and reading Tolstoy novels.
• Ardèche Gorges (and the caves) in France
• Anywhere in Provence or Haute Provence in France – esp in the spring. Just start driving – it will astound you.
• I love unusual and fun restaurants with great food and atmosphere. There are a lot of those, but I think the best time I ever had was at La Dame d’Aquitaine in Dijon.
• Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris – and other beautiful cemeteries
• Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg) in Paris.
• Notre Dame de Paris is spectacular, but I enjoy “buildings” of religion generally.
• OK, actually almost anywhere in Paris. I can’t pick a link for Paris.
• Lilacs in Massachusetts, and lavender fields anywhere.
• Redwoods and alpine.. pine.
• Vineyards, anywhere, in late afternoon.
• Big libraries, anywhere – but especially the Library of Congress.
• The cliffs at Newport Beach RI.
• MASSACHUSETTS: Amherst. Northampton. Quabbin Reservoir. Tanglewood, and the Berkshires area. Plymouth. Salem. Gloucester. Boston. Martha’s Vineyard. …

(thanks to Mark for the idea)

Someday I would like to go to the islands of Elba and Capri. In the States, I would like to spend more time in Washington, Oregon, and California.

What are some of your favorite places?