...traveled world a little bit when I was younger, and worked in Northern Canada and the arctic.. but best place would be the farm my parents bought when I was eight, tucked up against Riding Mountain National Park here in Manitoba. I had so much fun there as a kid that actual physical aspects, and logic too, seem irrelevant.
Elk, deer, bear, coyotes, cougar, grouse, ducks and a lot more seen there or nearby. Love the way it rises out of the surrounding prairies. But it is the nostalgia thing going here. have already planned the ashes ritual.
Mountain might be a bit of a misnomer, but you can see a long ways around here.
great topic Ren
..forgot the saskatoons, choke cherries and wild plums. And the neighbors.