Jay Honeck wrote:

1. Grand Canyon. ... There's nothing else like it.

Agree with your #1. I look forward to a trip to Marble Canyon someday.

2. Mackinac Island/Mackinac Bridge.

3. Barrier Islands/Ocracoke/Hatteras

Agree with this one too; at least once a year as long as we live in
Virginia.

4. Great Salt Lake.

4a. Ah, yes, but the getting to Salt Lake from 'back east' makes a
fantastic package: the plains of South Dakota (stop at Wall), Mount
Rushmore from 10,000 feet, over the Wasatch Range into Ogden.

4b. And then onward to the west - to Bonneville Salt Flats and overnight
at Wendover, the next day across the Sierra Nevada - Mt Lassen on the
right, Lake Tahoe on the left, then downhill into Sacramento, and
finally - the goal of the trip - the first glimpse of the towers of the
Golden Gate Bridge as we top the hills east of Oakland - coast-to-coast
in a C-172 (we begian our trip from Langley AFB, VA).

5. Oshkosh!

Someday.

george