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...being Charles Dickens. The English put up plaques to show where their literary celebrities lived or were born, and sometimes grant them burial in Westminster Abbey. Hugo, however, is the only writer to have a stone mark his place of conception. His parents' epochal embrace took place in a forest 3,000 ft. up on the flank of Mount Donon, overlooking the Rhineland, in May 1801, though it's typical of Hugo's own mythomania that in adult life he claimed it happened 3,000 ft. higher still, and on Mont Blanc...
...days at Raven Site is generally sufficient unless your child has an unusually keen interest in archaeology. When you can break away, head north on highway 191 toward St. Johns and the Petrified Forest. On the way, you'll pass through the Springerville Volcanic Field, the third largest of its kind in the continental U.S. Other possible stops include Rattlesnake Point, an archaeological site with petroglyphs (tours available via land or boat), and Lyman Lake State Park, for swimming, boating, hiking and fishing...
Petrified Forest National Park, where a 28-mile scenic drive takes you through colorful fields of petrified logs, Indian ruins and sweeping views of the Painted Desert, is a must. Don't miss the Rainbow Forest Museum at the park's south entrance: kids love seeing the dinosaur fossils, which date back more than 200 million years, and viewing up close the giant petrified logs on the small trail just outside...
...planting is not orderly--no exotic topiary of Disney's beloved barnyard critters. The look is what Comstock calls "promiscuous and harlequin," a quiet riot of greens, a forest painted by Rousseau. Comstock found some of the plants in Nepal, riding a mother elephant named Durgha Kali who recalled Paul from a previous visit and insisted on porting him again. As Comstock tells it, he would point to plants; Durgha would pull them out and pass them up to her master. Like any good Imagineer, Comstock must not only talk to the animals (and plants) but also put his vision...
...Malaysian journalist cursed with a foggy memory should stay off the smog story, because he/she might forget today's government warning that TV stations could be gagged for reporting negatively on forest-fire smoke. Schools and airports may be closed and visibility reduced to 165 feet, but Information Minister Mohammed Rahmat has expressly forbidden the use of the word "haze" to describe the cloud. Malaysian scribes who turn to their Microsoft Word thesaurus for help will find the most apposite alternative for "haze" is one Minister Rahmat should recognize: befuddlement...