Haven't been to Japan during the cherry blossom season, Spencer, but did enjoy the cherry blossoms around the tidal basin in Washington, D.C. one spring.

That first unfiltered Lucky Strike in a Key West dawn...<BR><BR>Driving through the Tennessee backwoods hunting for some (illicit) beer...<BR><BR>Doin' the wild thing of an evening in an English churchyard...<BR><BR>Noticing that the Capt giving the overwater briefing and saying "when" instead of if we should go down in the English Channel, while making the crossing, in a quarter-century-old DC-3...<BR><BR>Those were the days.

Having a picnic dinner at sunset on Menemsha Beach on Martha's Vinyard.<BR><BR>A camel ride to the top of a Sahara dune in Morocco for sunrise.<BR><BR>My marriage proposal on a gondola in Venice.<BR><BR>Spending the night in a castle on the Rhine River.<BR><BR>Having lunch at Jules Verne in the Eiffel Tower<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>