You know how, when you're having a tooth drilled at the dentist or in some other unpleasant situation and they always tell you to "go to your happy place" or imagine you're somewhere nice?

Well, this picture shows one of two places I send my mind in such situations. It's the Andes mountains. Not the highest, but the longest mountain range in the world. The backbone of an entire continent. The range those little mints in the green wrapper were named for.

My happy place.

(The other, in case you're wondering, is Cowans Gap State Park, where my family would go camping each summer growing up. See this entry from last summer.)

Where's your happy place?