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Posted by Evelyn Kanter Oct 29, 2006 |
Some people collect music boxes. Others collect traffic tickets. Me, I’m a sucker for scenery and archeologic ruins. Can’t get enough. If it has a view or a history, I want to visit and experience it. I’m a travel junkie.
Luckily, in years of wandering around as a writer and reporter, I’ve been lucky enough to visit some of the world’s most legendary places. Natural wonders this year were hiking in the Grand Canyon and Patagonia, and watching the rich animal life above sea level in the Galapagos Islands, the incredible rhapsody of colors underwater in Bonaire, a few years back, and the awesome majesty of lions and leopards on a jungle safari in South Africa.
I’ve hiked around Macchu Pichu, The Pyramids and Chichen Itza. I’ve skied Zermatt with the iconic Matterhorn in my face for most of the run, and been staggered by the larger-than-life opulence of the Grand Palace in Bangkok and Neueschwanstein, the mountaintop castle built by Bavaria’s King Ludwig that became the model for Walt Disney’s Cinderella castle.
But the are many of the world's wonders I haven't seen yet. The Taj Mahal, preferably under moonlight. Mount Fiji. Mount Kilamanjaro. Antarctica. The Northern Lights. The Great Wall of China. The Great Barrier Reef.
And there are places I haven’t been to in eons that I want to re-visit. Florence and Rome. Libya and Morocco. Yellowstone and Yosemite.
And the list goes on. So much to see and learn and experience. Not enough time.