Boy, good choices, Duck. I want to go to those places too.
CC, I forgot all about the Jasper/Lake Louise/Banff/Fraser River Canyon in Canada. It's spectacular! I rode the train from Montreal to Vancouver when I was 18 on my first Seattle visit. Mr. Salsa hasn't seen this part of Canada yet and I would love to take him. Where's your mom?
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks