flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) (04/05/84)
Everyone has in the back of their head [nonsexist grammar] a list of exotic places they'd like to see before they log out for the last time. Here are mine; I've made to a few, and hopes for some of the rest --- Samarkand. Lhasa. Fiji. Macchu Picchu. Tierra del Fuego. Beijing. Istanbul. Trebizond, a port on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. The Kara-Bogaz-Gol, a bay on the Caspian Sea. Tbilisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia. Trincomalee, a port in Sri Lanka. The Rann of Kutch, a sea marsh in western India. Persepolis. Tanna Tuva, now absorbed into Mongolia (familiar to stamp collectors). Kamchatka, unfortunately closed to foreigners. Zanzibar. Tierra del Fuego. Antarctica. [I was signed up to go in 1979 on the Air New Zealand plane that crashed, but had to change plans at the last minute.] The motivation is largely the romantic names, I suppose.