Hi, I'm a LOST fan who lives in Louisville, Kentucky. I'm also the most recent (2003-2005) human to discover a natural entrance to the Mammoth Cave System in my beloved native Kentucky.

The shooting locations for LOST on Oahu are so beautiful. I love looking at the real Island in Google Earth. You should too. Find the Pala Ferry! (It's easy.)

Edward Abbey's book Desert Solitaire begins with these words.

"This is the most beautiful place on Earth.

"There are many such places."

Kentucky is beautiful, with wilderness as wild as anything you'd see on LOST, but also with four star restaurants and the world-class Actors Theatre, the oldest steamboat in operation, the longest cave system in the world, the most miles of rivers in the United States, the largest collection of natural sandstone arches outside Utah, parts of the oldest mountain range in North America, a moonbow, two of the largest artificial lakes in the union, the log cabin that Abraham Lincoln was born in, and in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, "They play very good basketball." (2010: The Year We Make Contact.)

Louisville, my home, and Kentucky's principal city, has been the home of actors Sean Young, Ned Beatty, Victor Mature (who is buried here), Tom Cruise, Jack Warden, and William Mapother, who plays Ethan Rom.

Astronomer Edwin Hubble lived here twice, growing up on Brook Street (his Chicagoan parents wanted to raise their children in a smaller town) and later living on Everett Avenue in the Highlands while coaching basketball for New Albany (Indiana) High School.

Speaking of the LOST Season 4 "electrical" theme, Thomas Edison also lived and worked here twice as a telegrapher, the first time around 1866 (he lived in Butchertown, and would have walked home from work a block north of the construction site of the Gothic church that is now known as St. John United Church of Christ, a liberal congregation which now boasts some of the best liturgical music to be heard outside of Oxbridge.)

Louisville is beautiful: a French friend of mine who lives here says the city is like "a big garden," (and she is used to Paris!) We're fiercely proud of our city here. Half a million people wouldn't live anywhere else. The largest collection of Victorian residential homes is here, south of downtown in "Old Louisville."

Any LOST fan that reads these words is right welcome in my home. Let me show you another beautiful island on this island Earth until you beg me to stop.

p. s. Hi Ethan! Thanks for showing my friend Krista a good time! And you rock as an actor. I'll help you with Juliet's plumbing next time. I'm a big fan, and if you've read this far, you'll know why. Go Louisville!