where would you go?

[Riverkilt]

Maybe a quick trip over to Zion and the Virgin River


Or up Paria Canyon to Lonely Dell


Or a short hike to the Mushroom Rocks in upper Paria Canyon


Or up into Utah to frolic on the "Lunar" landscape


Or a jaunt to the Wahweap Bay arm of Lake Powell and Castle Rock.


Or into Antelope Canyon - a narrow slot canyon


Or up Cottonwood Canyon to The Narrows


Or voyage uplake to Rainbow Bridge.

[Standard]

I'd take a visitor on a mini tour of the midwest. Starting with our state capitol of Springfield, Illinois http://www.visit-springfieldillinois.com/ we'd visit the State Capitol building, the Abraham Lincoln home and tomb, and of course the new Lincoln museum http://www.presidentlincoln.org/ .

Next a trip through Hannibal, Missouri http://www.hanmo.com/ to tour Mark Twain's cave, and the old downtown area with the Tom Sawyer exhibits.

A drive down along the Mississippi river would take us to St. Louis, Missouri to see the Gateway Arch http://www.gatewayarch.com/Arch/, Grant's Farm http://www.grantsfarm.com/ . A tour of the Anheuser Busch breweryhttp://www.anheuser-busch.com/ and a St. Louis Cardinal's baseball game http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=stl followed by a tour of historic Cahokia Mounds http://cahokiamounds.org/ would send us back into Illinois.

We'd then travel through part of the cornbelt and some of the most fertile farm ground in the world on our way to Chicago, Illinois. Once in Chicago a trip up to the sky deck in the Sears Tower http://www.theskydeck.com/info.asp an off broadway show http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/off-...ay-in-chicago/ some shopping on the Magnificent Mile http://www.themagnificentmile.com/ lunch at Pizzaria Uno for an authentic Chicago deep dish pizza http://www.unos.com/newmenu/dd_pizza.html an afternoon at the Field Museum of Natural History http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ to see Sue the T-Rex dinosaur and finally end with a Chicago Cubs game at the historic Wrigley field http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=chc and end our trip with a walk along Lakeshore Drive and the beach.

This trip which could be enjoyed in about 4 days could easily be stretched to a week by including a few more sights such as the St. Louis Zoo, a tour of the Catepilar factory in Peoria, or the John Deere factory in Moline, Illinois, and obviously many more sights in and around Chicago.

[Riverkilt]

Maybe a jaunt out to the Navajo Reservation to explore the rezlands


A drive up Black Mesa to the Tsegi Canyon overlook


A tour to the Anasazi ruins in Mystery Valley just south of Monument Valley


And of course Monument Valley itself


Up to the Black Mesa high country forests


Deep into the rezlands high country near Shonto for a Traditional Navajo Wedding


Down to the Painted Desert near Moenave


South of Red Lake to Blue Canyon


Coal Mine Canyon south of Tuba City


Dinosaur tracks and coprolite near Tuba City


and finally, historic Antelope Pass above Bitter Springs