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Yes your right that is a wonderful book. I have so many favorite places but here are a few:

All time favorite was Chitzinitza Maya Ruins in Mexico. It was fascinating to hear how they lived and built those magnificent temples with no modern machinery. I was very brave that day and did climb the stairs to the top of one of the temples. Wow what a view and a feeling of humbleness overcame me.

My second favorite is Mackinac Island near the UP in Michigan. This is where The Grand Hotel is and many movies have been made there. Somewhere in Time being one of them. You are treated like a queen or king if you stay there. The food is fabulous, the hotel decor is unique and after dinner people gather on the long, long porch to sit in huge rocking chairs to take in the water view. There are no cars allowed on the island so transportation is horse carriage's or bicycles. That my favorite part taking the horse drawn carriage through the islands.

Thirdly, I love California, Big Sur, Napa Valley, and San Francisco area are darn hard to beat beauty wise. They have it all, the ocean and mountains. I love it there.

Yes, Machu Picchu and Galapagos Isles are on our bucket list. We have not been to Europe yet so Spain, Italy, Holland, Greece, and Thailand are places we hope to visit when we retire.

Like you, I love to travel, actually I live to travel and always planning a trip somewhere. My husband wants to go Dominican Republic, Santa Domingo and Punta Cana so that is our next trip.

When we retire we are going to get in the car and just drive all over America. East coast to west coast, north, south and we plan to take around 4- 6 weeks to do this. There are plenty of beautiful places here we hope to see too.