Name a tourist destination you went to...then later found another with a connection.

[Xolodno]

Hearst Castle in San Simeon. We've toured it extensively. Know about some of the other Castles such as Wyntoon, etc.

But while visiting the Fairmont Hot Springs, in Montana, we visited the nearby town of Anaconda. And were floored to see the "Hearst Library",...your typical library. After talking to an employee there, they stated it was built under William's mother, Phoebe. She then stated she was aware their was of a "museum" of the Hearst Family in the central California Coast...that's when I explained the grandeur of the Castle, area, etc. and why we were amazed to see a relationship from there to here.

[Liberty Belle]

1. Yellowstone and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

I'd visited Yellowstone several times admiring the unique geology due to thermal activity, but didn't realize until years later it was on a super volcano. The first I learned of that was while interviewing a scientist/volcanologist at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

[applegrove]

2. Our family was in the Rockies. We saw a cave entrance in the middle

of a huge cliff at a rest stop on the Alberta BC border in Field. All of us in the family are interested in things. We were beside ourselves with curiosity. We stayed there for half an hour wondering what it's purpose was. Was it a mine? I think we asked the Parks people there. We asked my older brother, who was to start a summer job nearby, to figure out what it was. Turns out it was the Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil sites in the world. We had one curiosity shared event in our family and it turned out it was at one of the most important scientific sites in the world.

https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca

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I visited my brother in Boston when he was at university there in the 1980s. I flew in from Halifax, Nova Scotia. We went out to dinner with a friend and roomate of his George. George was a Democratic political organizer while he was at college. We went to the Italian section of Boston for dinner. Really lovely. Tiny little restaurants in the living dinningrooms of old homes with one person in the small house sized kitchen. Wonderful food. We were not there long when some man walked up to George enthusiasticly and asked George if he was going to join Ted's campaign team. That Ted really wanted him. They talked for a bit. And I was thinking yeah that's right. Fly into the USA for the weekend from Nova Scotia and of course your having dinner with someone who knows Ted Kennedy. I'm sure that is what America is like for everybody... things just happen there.

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