Some 530 miles east of Vancouver, we slow past the craggy, Tolkienesque bulk of Castle Mountain and come to rest in Banff.

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Ho Gaya Na Pyar (Love Has Finally Happened) was shot at Dolbadarn Castle and the Llanberis mountain railway in north Wales.

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Tucked between the Castle and Little Belt mountain ranges, the ranch has 9, 000 deeded acres, five reservoirs, 3 miles of the trout-rich North Fork of the Musselshell River, and antelope, deer and elk that roam the mix of bald hills and stands of Douglas fir and ponderosa pines.

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Now, at thirty, I'd found all I needed in the sweet, real world of Cedar Valley, where I lived-the mountain peaks forming a torn-edged horizon, like a castle's crenellated walls, protecting me within a bowl of neatly laid out streets lined with well-established homes and mature trees.

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Next up was Komugi Mountain, atop which, Miyamoto had told me, I would find the ruins of Sonobe Castle, the epicenter of his childhood explorations.

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