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Someone on another forum here suggested that we start a "Biggest Wow" thread, things you saw and remember that knocked your socks off.Here are a couple of mineThe Parthenon in Greece, actually, all...

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Oh I forgot a very big wow and just last year. We were landing in Ft. Lauderdale from Chicago and were coming in over the ocean and I looked down exactly and the same time as a whale came up. It was...

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Hi Tini, no I didn't get any photos, My husband was staying in the US and he had the camera - but really, I don't need photos to remember the sight, It was amazing watching the lights dancing around...

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There are so many of them how does one choose?Sailing through the Abacos on a friend's sailboat and anchoring off an uninhabited island watching the sun set.Running through Central Park amidst the...

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...........and another one.....Just spent the T'giving weekend in Napa Valley (Yountville).Don't know if the unusually warm weather has anything to do with it but all of Napa Valley's vines were on...

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Kal, no GTG?

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Hi Kal, how about jumping over to the Trip Reports and give us a trip report of your weekend? Have a good week!

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I skied on the UMass womens' ski team. We had a race in Maine, too far from school to get there easily in the time we had, so we left the night before, spending the night in one of the girl's cabins...

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Our first trip abroad, flying to London. We woke up in the early morning light to look out the plane window just as it crossed the coast of England, fairly low, with those gorgeous emerald green...

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My first trip to Hawaii...water water everywhere and then what to my wondering eyes did appear out of the plane window but Oahu...yipee...we flew right by Waikiki and I could pick out the Royal...

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Wow, my IQ number is still over the number of years, how cool is that

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Cold Vermont winter morning sunlight transformed into every rainbow color of sparkling jeweled light by unbroken trackless new-fallen snow as I skied the first run of the day.

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It's nice to see this thread again

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There are so many wow's ... so here goes:1) of course, when I walked out of the train station in Venice. I wasn'T expecting it to be so amazing.2) Flying into Geneva, Switzerland when the clouds were...

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I already did some travel wows in the original incarnation of this thread (and they still hold) but I have to say that watching my daughter graduate from college and then several years later pick up...

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What a cool thread!!1. As many others, exiting the train station at Venice. My husband actually had tears in his eyes!2. Eilean Donan castle with a lone piper out front. I could not even speak I was...

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Seeing my daughters' faces for the first time, and then years later, watching the birth of my granddaughter were the biggest, best WOWs of my entire life.Seeing the Alps up close and personal and...

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I had 2 in Florence - walking along thinking I was getting close to the Duomo, turning a corner and there it was. Also in Florence, in the Accademia, walking through the doorway from the first room of...

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Travel Wows:Standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon for the first timeHiking in a valley across from the MatterhornSeeing a double rainbow in the Canadian RockiesViewing Mesa Verde National Park ruins

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some more travel "wows"The first view of Yosemite valley, after you drive through the tunnel, and there it is, laid out in front of you.The view from my hotel window in Varenna. Lake Como has to be...

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