Article: Your No. 1 spots for vacation // Iowa to Ecuador, they're a top crop

From Iowa to Ecuador and Boundary Waters to Buenos Aires, your favorite vacation destinations take in an astonishing range of landscapes.

Familiar and exotic, they add up to a Readers' Forum round-the-world tour. We only regret that there's room to print just a sampling here, starting with the three winners: Mary Costello, of Albany, Ill. ($50 gift certificate); Florence G. Armour, of Michigan City, Ind. ($25), and Chris Sweeney, of Wheeling ($15).

FIRST PRIZE: In the fall of 1985, I visited friends in Sabula, Iowa - actually an island (sabulum meaning "sandbar" in Latin) in the Mississippi River. It is connected by bridge to Savanna, Ill., and by causeway to the rest of Iowa.

I had ...

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