1001 Natural Wonders

Read a good chunk of this book by Michael Bright.

The distribution by country (about 147 countries are listed)

Countries I have visited
USA 114 (including Hawaii)
Australia 107
France 33
Scotland 26
England 22
Canada 17
New Zealand 12
Japan 11
Mexico 9
Italy 9
Austria 8
Switzerland 8
Germany 7
Ireland 5
Czech Republic 3
Belgium 1

Countries I would like to visit
South Africa 48
China 40
Thailand 34
Spain 33
India 26
Brazil 19
Chile 16
Namibia 13
Ecuador 12
Greece 12
Russia 11
Nepal 10
Costa Rica 10
Papua New Guinea 9
Norway 9
Sweden 9
Argentina 9
Tibet 8
Turkey 8
Iceland 8
Sri Lanka 7
Vietnam 6
Wales 6
Bhutan 3

Breakdown in the USA

New York
Niagra Falls
The Great Lakes

Alaska
Brooks Range
McNeil Falls
Mount Katmai
Bear Glacier
(and more)

Washington
Mount Rainier
Grand Coulee
Dry Falls
Upper Skagit River
Mount St. Helens

Oregon
Crater Lake
Multnomah Falls
Mountain Hood
Columbia River Gorge

Coleman reading Flora of Pacific NW Burroughs 3
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Coleman reading Flora of Pacific NW Burroughs 3

Coleman carried a most impressive botanical reference manual up to 8000 feet, his signed first edition of:

Flora of the Pacific Northwest
An Illustrated manual
by C. Leo Hitchcock
and Arthur Cronquist

Burroughs 3 is one of my favorite spots to go on an early morning in August or September. It is a quiet spot with a quite of view of Mount Rainier. It is a good walk from Sunrise , maybe 3 miles and with ups and downs maybe 2000 feet of elevation gain.
It's one of the easiest ways to get to 8000 feet in Washington State.

Christopher Alexander Books
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Christopher Alexander has written (another) interesting series of books on architecture and design. I came across these in my fine local bookstore, Third Place Books of Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA. I could not help laying them out in an array.

I have just started Stephen Wolframs "A New Kind of Science". These books by Alexander seem a very good complement.