And here are some more pics https://imgchest.com/p/m9yxqppo67q

As a matter of perspective, your day off is my future retirement trip. Maybe

I do consider myself very fortunate to live here; it's not some magical utopia, of course, but there's a lot of good and a lot of beauty. I try to make the most of it. Hopefully you get to some day too!

Of course, there's plenty I want to see elsewhere in the world myself. Based on your posts it seems like you're in Illinois, US? I'd love the chance to look around some of your national parks, especially the ones with terrains that just don't exist in Europe like Badlands. I know many of those will still be thousands of miles away from you, of course, but I would assume the Great Lakes have some worthwhile sights?

You have a good healthy perspective. Yes, badlands are probably something i won't see because it's very far.
I am in Illinois. Only been as far west as Colorado, far south as Florida. Those were two separate trips.

I don't like traveling, but want the pay off of arriving at the destination. Scotland is a very hopeful bucket list item.