in the tennis industry and is currently the owner of Mountain View Tennis Club in Dalton, Georgia. Fred began his tennis-teaching career at what was then Dalton Junior College Continuing Education Department. He later taught full-time for Cobb County Parks and Recreations Department in Marietta, Georgia and spent 15 years as director of tennis at Sunset Hills Country Club in Carrollton, Georgia.of the ugliest brawls in Canada have been waged over who's sorrier, travelers should be wary of such niceties, notes another Canadian apologist: "Sometimes we're actually expressing our sympathy for your shortcomings ."

2. Lakes and 'Cottage Country'

Canada has more lakes than any other country -- about 3 million. The province of Ontario alone contains about a third of the world's freshwater , spread over 250,000 lakes.

No surprise that "heading up to the lake" is more than just a favorite national phrase.

It's Canada's sacred version of lighting out for the territory -- but with cottages furnished with Muskoka chairs, Kevlar canoes and competing Gordon Lightfoot and loon mating call soundtracks.

Recently, Ontario's prime lake district, Muskoka , got the nod from National Geographic Traveler as the top summer destination --