Bucket list!

I've always wanted to do this. I was driving thru New Mexico, a couple years ago while driving across country, and they had their annual balloon festival. Sadly, it was too windy. Another day.... It's certainly on my bucket list!!!

I'm desperate to try this! The festival goes on for a few days but there are a few days when they launch 100 balloons simultaneously. This is one of the few things in life that would get me up at 5 a.m., which is when the balloons launch.

Trying to figure out a return trip!

Montana! So close.

Montana! So close.

The red of these rocks are from lichen. So beautiful against the white of the sand!

Next step, international me!!

Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park created in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt in order to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world. Inscribed in 1978, it is one of the 21 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United States.

I just went to Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, and Mesa Verde looks even cooler.

A great experience

This is not in Vacouver.

It was cool. When the restaurant turns around, you can find notes on the window seal with a crayon, so grab it and say hello to the curious kid who left it there for you!

I really need to check out the top of Ye Olde Space Needle.

The view is great!

Crazy architecture and some really cool exhibits if you're into music and sci-fi. Nirvana, Avatar, Scary movies, and an instruments playing lab were the highlights while we were there.

music museum. will be fun for the adults and kids alike...

Must see for music fiends.

Lived in Oregon for two years and didn't make it to Crater Lake. It's time.

Only time I have been is during October. Its spooky and cold but so beautiful.

This is the extinct volcano next to Arenal, and you can climb it -- and then boast to all your friends that you CLIMBED A VOLCANO. There's a crater lake at the top, too.

Floated the Colorado River with the family. One of the best experiences ever. Ride was excellerating and the food and entertainment were mind boggling. Make sure you hit all the big rapidsl.

I've been there but always in winter when the driving snow obscured the view of the canyon. I want to go again.

I pray that I get fit enuf to trek here