Lil and Dave Rea’s Anniversary

45 Places to See Before You Die

1. ALABAMA Bellingrath Gardens and Home (20 miles southwest of Mobile)

2. ARIZONA Boulders Resort and Golden Door Spa Carefree, AZ (33 mis. N of Phoenix)

3. ARKANSAS The Ozarks

4. CALIFORNIA Santa Rosa, (55 mis. N of San Francisco)Luther Burbank Home & Gardens Horticulturist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants including the Santa Rosa plum and Shasta Daisy over his 55-year career

5. COLORADO Rocky Mtn. National Park (Grand Lake for accommodations) where the Colorado River begins

6. CONNECTICUT (Yale Peabody Museum New Haven)

7. GEORGIA Atlanta Botanical Garden Great Children’sGarden; Windsor Hotel in Americus, GA

8. IDAHO Lake Coeur d’Alene (31 mis. E of Spokane, WA)or Henry's Fork Lodge (45 mins. W. of Yellowstone)

9. ILLINOIS Chicago Architectural Boat Tour and Millenium Park

10. INDIANA Indiana State Museum inc. 92 counties in Indiana represented through sculptures embedded in the walls, the sidewalks, and the stair rails, which lead to the Canal Walk. Across bridge White River Gardens behind Indianapolis Zoo and limestone walk with carvings.

11. IOWA State Fair Des Moines

12. KANSAS City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

13. KENTUCKY Louisville Slugger Museum

14. LOUISANA Soniat House in New Orleans

15. MAINE Lubec, and Campobello Island – the most Eastern point of lower US states

16. MARYLAND Waterman’s Crab House Rock Hall (up the road from Easton)

17. MASSACHUSETTS Stockbridge (1.5 hrs. W. of Hartford)

18. MICHIGAN Mackinaw Bridge Walk and Mackinac Island Grand Hotel

19. MINNESOTA Minneapolis Institute of Arts

20. MISSISSIPPI The Natchez Trace 444 mis. Also In Alabama, Tenn.

21. MISSOURI Botanical Garden in St. Louis

22. MONTANA Triple Creek Ranch (75 mis. S. of Missoula airport)

23. NEBRASKA The Josyn Art Museum Omaha

24. NEVADA Bellagio in Las Vegas

25. NEW HAMPSHIRE The Balsams Dixville Notch

26. NEW JERSEY Hamilton J. Seward Johnson Grounds for Sculpture Garden and Rats Restaurant

27. NEW MEXICO Inn of the Anasazi Santa Fe

28. NEW YORK Culinary Institute and Kykuit

29. NORTH CAROLINA Inn at the Biltmore Estate and Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC

30. OHIO Cleveland University Circle and Cleveland Botanical Garden

31. OKLAHOMA Old Route 66 “Free Road”

32. OREGON The Oregon Coast and The Lewis & Clark Trail; Crater Lake

33. PENNSYLVANIA Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water and Kentuk Knob; The Barnes Foundation in Philly

34. RHODE ISLAND Block Island

35. SOUTH CAROLINA Spoleto Festival in Charleston in June

36. SOUTH DAKOTA The Black Hills & Badlands

37. TENNESSEE Blackberry Farm 4 mis. from Great Smoky Mtn. NP in Walland

38. TEXAS The Menil Collection in Houston

39. UTAH Bryce; Moab and Red Rock Country; Monument Valley; Zion

40. VERMONT Shelburne Farms (Frederick Olmstead)

41. VIRGINIAHistoric Historic Marion near Mt. Rodgers & Grayson Highlands; The Homestead at Hot Springs; Williamsburg at Christmas;

42. WASHINGTON DC The Portrait Gallery; U.S. Botanic Garden on the Mall

43. WEST VIRGINIA The Greenbrier at White Sulphur Springs

44. WISCONSIN The American Club or Inn at Woodlake in Kohler

45. WYOMING Amangani in Jackson

States omitted : Hawaii, Alaska, Delaware, Florida, North Dakota, Washington