[Magdalen] Where to go?

[Jay Weigel]

Glacier National Park.....my brother and sister-in-law lived on the
outskirts when he was serving with Indian Health Service on the Blackfeet
reservation.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>