New places visited: Arizona canyons and Meteor Crater; Palm Springs; Les Arc (my first ski-ing resort, where I didn't manage to ski but did toboggan); the East Sierras; Passe a Grille (and some other new islands around St Petersburg/Tampa) and ice cream shops across Florida and the Fountain of Youth where rowanf did an archaeology dive; Madrid (and the Rock In Rio concert, which is further away than you'd expect for somewhere where the headline act goes on stage at midnight). New places visited... read more