Favorite spots and experiences on Earth

• Watching the sunrise from atop the Great Pyramid of Cheops
• Retsina in the Temple of Athena to the light of a full moon in Delphi, Greece
• The edge of the Rub Al-Khali (The Empty Quarter) Desert on the Arabian Penninsula
• Tioman Island and Malaysia's east coast
• The southern tip of the Sinai where the two tips of the Red Sea converge
• Pre-dawn Coptic liturgical chants & trekking from St. Paul to St. Anthony Monastery
• John Williams, the classical guitarist, playing in the Marie in Castres, France under a starry sky and at a picnic the following day
• Walking through the garden in our backyard in Martin
• Yak's milk tea in and about Kathmandu... also, chang, a Nepali beverage
• Swimming with sea lions among the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
• Reading under the olive tree overlooking the valley near my old apartment in Alcoy, Spain
• The peal of the cathedral bell across the valley from the abandoned town of Beniafé
• Wandering about the Alhambra in Granada, Spain and the Sphinx of Giza