Early morning on the coast south of Seoul, with the rocks and a fishing boat looking like ghosts in the morning haze. The north rim of the Grand Canyon. The Dingle Peninsula, West Cork, Knocknaree. The mist rising off the Mississippi River under a 2 a.m. full moon, looking like ghosts arising. The Tombigbee River at 5:30 a.m., with a "log" off to starboard that blinks its eyes and makes you thankful you're not swimming. The bay at Homer, Alaska. Mt. St. Elias. Three Guardsmen Pass in the Yukon. The fumorules and hot pots in Yellowstone in the winter. Chaco Canyon. A neolithic flint mine in East Anglia and the US Cemetery a Cambridge. Antietam, Shiloh, and Gettysburg battlefieds. Being on a very chilly hillside just as the sun comes up and touches the frost jewels on corn stubble in the field where you hope a deer will be -- and waking up three or four hours later to go get some coffee.