How goes your day/night/whatever it is, KM??!!
After growing up in our flat Florida, JH2, I was blessed to live in the Rockies for a year (Rapid City, South Dakota); and to drive from there to Fairbanks, Alaska (for 3 1/2 years), going around the literal top of the Rockies.
Camped out one summer there above the Arctic Circle, with snow flurries on August 12th, and then went down to Mt. McKinley to see The Big One - camped at 88 Mile on an overlook where the scene stretching so VASTLY below was something only God could create!!
In one fell swoop, backtracked down the Rockies, across the South to South Florida to visit family - and then up to Myrtle Beach, SC.
A REALLY LONG Road Trip!!
Also later spent 19 years in the Piedmont section of North Carolina, often visiting the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains.
I know The Mayor enjoyed his year in the Virginia mountains, and jwfiv loves those in California.