[Magdalen] Where to go?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> ​Everyone's talking Maine, Quebec, and the Maritimes. For another
> consideration, I would offer the mountains and Big Sky Country of Montana,
> Wyoming, and Colorado

There's Mount Rushmore in SD, the Tetons, Yellowstone...

Lynn


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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 10:03 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Where to go?

> ​Everyone's talking Maine, Quebec, and the Maritimes. For another
> consideration, I would offer the mountains and Big Sky Country of Montana,
> Wyoming, and Colorado and even the western Dakotas, if you haven't been
> there. That would be best as a summer trip, and I don't know if we have 
> any
> pubmates there​ nowadays. It's amazing country, though. My brother lives 
> in
> the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, about an hour south of Missoula, and I 
> am
> dying to go rockhounding out there......
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Roger Stokes 
> <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
>> wrote:
>
>> On 12/12/2014 01:53, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>>
>>> Quebec City IS fabulous... and if there, spurge one night at the Chateau
>>> Frontenac, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Frontenac
>>> even if you get the cheapest room (maybe no more cheap rooms, I see it 
>>> is
>>> now run by 'The Fairmont' chain)  In 1980 it was named a historic 
>>> landmark
>>> in Canada... it overlooks the St. Lawrence from a CLIFF!!!   Also Roger, 
>>> if
>>> you're that close to that area, consider a tour of the 1,000 islands - 
>>> in
>>> the westernmost part of the St. Lawrence before it enters Lake Ontario.
>>> BTW... have you seen ANY Of the Great Lakes?  really worth a look... If 
>>> you
>>> were in Toronto,  you must have seen Lake Ontario... L. Superior is my
>>> favorite, followed by L. Huron (on the E side of Michigan, my home 
>>> state).
>>>
>>
>> I saw Michigan back in 2012 and, as you say, Ontario last year as well as
>> the previous year from Rochester.  I can't remember if I saw Superior 
>> from
>> the train last year and it would only have been some of the inlets of
>> Huron.  The previous year we went past Erie in the dark.  Having said 
>> that
>> last year's flight path to Houston went partly over Huron and 
>> substantially
>> over Michigan.
>>
>> Roger
>>