Point of No Return

So, trip's getting pretty darn close now. We've now made our first actual hotel reservation for our trip, for our first night in Ashland, Oregon. The rest of the trip we're going to avoid reservations, or for some national parks maybe call ahead a day or two in advance. But we know we're going to be in Ashland on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, which is during the Shakespeare Festival, so it just seemed like the smart thing to do.

So, one official hotel reservation (and two tickets to "Merry Wives of Windsor"), so the trip is actually real now. No backing out now, or else we, uh, are out about eighty bucks. Er, unless we sell our tickets on Ebay or something.

Anyway.

Five places Kathy and I are both really excited about seeing on our trip:

1. Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming
2. Quebec City
3. Savannah, Georgia
4. Acadia National Park in Maine
5. Graceland

Three places I'm excited to see, but Kathy -- uh, not so much:

1. Fenway Park
2. Carhenge
3. Field of Dreams tourist trap in Iowa (Think I'm gonna get vetoed on that one.)

Three places that Kathy's a heckuva lot more excited to see than I am:

1. Dollywood in Tennessee
2. Some nebulous unidentified area in New Hampshire that she used to go to summer camp in
3. Amish country, Pennsylvania

Regarding Dollywood, I think Kathy's in for some major disappointment on that one. I think it's pretty much a normal amusement park. Kinda country themed, and I'm sure they play a lot of Dolly Parton music over the loudspeakers, but it's not like there are Dolly Parton themed rides like the "Steel Magnolia Adventure Ride" or roller coasters shaped like gigantic breasts or something. Although THAT would be worth visiting.