[Magdalen] Where to go?

[Charles Wohlers]

I can remember going on a traveling camping trip with a bunch of other 
teenagers through the West, and, stopping for a bit in Saskatchewan, a local 
asked us if we'd been to any place duller than Saskatchewan. While we wanted 
to say "yes", we couldn't honestly do that.

Of course, we hadn't been to North Dakota yet . . .

That said, The South Dakota Badlands, and Mt. Rushmore and the caves in the 
Black Hills are highly recommended. Admittedly, there isn't much between 
there and the Great Lakes. I must say I wasn't all that impressed with the 
Black Hills themselves - too much like Eastern mountains - but they 
certainly were a sight for sore eyes after all that flat country. They don't 
call it "fly-over country" for nothin'

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com


-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Stokes
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 1:28 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Where to go?

On 12/12/2014 16:03, Jay Weigel wrote:
> ​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......

I was the one who, in this conversation, brought up that part of Canada
as somebody hed mentioned it in a conversation a few weeks ago.  My
concern about what you describe as the Big Sky country is just that -
what is there for a tourist to see and do apart from look at mile after
mile of the Great Plains?  Last year I travelled on the train through
the Canadian part of that area and have to admit it had little
attraction for me.

Roger