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August 1989. Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

Icons of the USA, both man-made and natural.

a.) Places I have seen or been to in the USA.

1.The indentation in the floor in the bowels of the Capitol Building directly below the centre of the dome, Washington DC.

2.The Devil’s Golf Course in Death Valley, California.

3.Mount St. Helens, Washington.

4.The Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.

5.Enola Gay at the Smithsonian, Washington DC.

6.The top of the Empire State Building in New York City, New York.

7.Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California.

8.The Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado.

9.Yaki Point above the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona.

10.Monument Valley, Arizona.

11.Shiprock, New Mexico.

12.The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California.

13.The Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, New York.

14.The top of Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois.

15.Sunset on the Great Salt Lake, Bountiful, Utah.

16.The Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming.

17.Taos Pueblo, Taos, New Mexico.

18.The cablecars of San Francisco, California.

19.The strip of concrete marking the flight path of the Wright Brothers, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

20.The Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada.

21.Mount Rainier, Washington.

22.The top of the World Trade Centre in New York City, New York.

23.Boulder Dam, Nevada.

24.Monarch Pass on the Great Divide, Colorado.

25.Golden Spike, Utah.

26.The Grand Tetons, Jackson Lake, Wyoming.

27.The Epcot Centre, Disneyworld, Florida.

28.The Saturn Five at Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.

29.The Overlook at Bryce Canyon, Utah.

30.The Big Boy at Steamtown, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

31.USS Constitution, Boston, Massachusetts.

32.Zion Canyon, Utah.

33.USS Yorktown, Charleston, South Carolina.

34.The Union Pacific Stockyards at The Dalles, Oregon.

35.The Space Needle, Seattle, Washington.

36.The Pawnshops in Gallup, New Mexico.

37.The Santa Fe Warbonnet at the California Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California.

38.Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.

 

b.) Places I have not been to in the USA, but would like to.

1.The Gateway Arch and the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.

2.Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.

3.Devil’s Tower, Wyoming.

4.The New Building at Ground Zero in New York City, New York.

5.The Superbowl in the Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana.

6.An NFL home game of the San Francisco 49ers (against the Packers or the Patriots).

7.Lake Superior, Wisconsin.

8.Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii.

9.Mount Denali, Alaska.

10.Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

11.The Statue of Liberty, New York. (I have flown around it in a helicopter, but I would like to climb up it.)

12.The Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

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