Travel

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I have always loved to travel.

When I was in high school, I participated in the German-American Partnership Program (GAPP) and got to spend a month of my summer vacation in Germany.  Besides staying with a host family, we also got to travel to Munich and Stuttgart, see a few castles, take a train trip to Lucerne, Switzerland and Salzburg, Austria, and spend a day layover in Copenhagen, Denmark.  The girl I stayed with came and stayed with my family a few months later.  It was such a wonderful experience.

I dreamed that someday I would work in an embassy somewhere far away.  In case you didn’t notice, that didn’t happen – but that’s okay.  I joined the Air Force as a Russian linguist and even though I haven’t quite seen the world yet, I have seen a lot of our beautiful country.

In the past 10 years, I’ve had the chance to do a lot of traveling.  Some of the neat places I’ve been are:

The Alamo
San Antonio Riverwalk
Golden Gate Bridge
17 Mile Drive on the Monterey Peninsula
Pebble Beach Golf Course – no we didn’t golf!
Carmel Mission
Big Sur, CA
Hearst Castle
Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Santa Cruz boardwalk
Redwoods National Park
Sequoia National Park
Ferry from Washington to Alaska
Denali National Park
an Alaskan glacier
the Anchorage Zoo
World Ice Art Championships
Botanical Gardens at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Have you ever seen giant cabbage?
Seward Aquarium
The Santa Claus House in North Pole, AK
Drove the entire Alcan (Alaska-Canada Highway)
Sign Post Forest in Watson Lake, Canada
The largest mall in North America – the West Edmondton Mall in Alberta
Glacier National Park
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Tetons National Park
Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, MT
Custer’s Battlefield
Devil’s Tower
Mount Rushmore
Badlands National Park
Wind Cave National Park
Wall Drug, South Dakota
Reptile Gardens in South Dakota
Crazy Horse Monument
Custer State Park in SD
Gateway Arch – we took the ride up to the top
St. Louis Science Museum
Niagara Falls
Old Fort Niagara
Punxsutawney, PA – yes we saw the groundhog.
Lancaster county, PA
Gettysburg Battlefield
Manassas Battlefield
The Mall in Washington, D.C. – Lincoln & Washington Monuments, the war memorials, Smithsonian Natural History Museum
Hershey, Pennsylvania (we slept on Chocolate Ave!)
Bureau of Printing and Engraving tour
Abrams’ Delight (the oldest home in Winchester, VA)
Shenandoah National Park
Drove the Blue Ridge Parkway
Monticello
Appomattox Court House, VA
Roanoke Zoo, VA
The Biltmore
Smoky Mountain National Park
South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, SC
Fort Moultrie, SC
Paris Island
Hunting Island State Park, SC
Wormsloe State Historic Site, Savannah, GA
Old Fort Jackson, Savannah, GA
Fort Pulaski, Savannah, GA
Tybee Island, GA
Jekyll Island, GA
Georgia Sea Turtle Center
Fort Frederica, GA
Hilton Head Island, SC
Juliette Gordon Lowe House tour in Savannah, GA
Trolley Tour of Savannah, GA
Ghost Tour of Savannah, GA
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, GA
Owens-Thomas House tour, Savannah, GA
Forsyth Park, Savannah, GA
Ogeechee-Savannah Canal
Fort McAllister State Park
Castillo de San Marco, St. Augustine, FL
Trolley tour of St. Augustine, FL
Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum in St. Augustine, FL
St. Augustine Lighthouse (climbed it!)
Tybee Island Lighthouse (climbed it!)
Fort Matanzas, FL
Sea World, Orlando, FL
Magnolia Plantation, Charleston, SC
Louisville Slugger Museum
Kentucky Derby Museum
Patton Museum on Ft. Knox
Mammoth Cave National Park
Metropolis, IL – Superman’s hometown
Chickamauga and Chatanooga Battlefield, GA
Augusta, GA
Atlanta, GA (for a genealogy conference)
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, WA
Fort Clatsop, OR
Canon Beach, OR
Myrtle Creek, OR
Crater Lake National Park (we drove around the entire park)
High Desert Museum in Bend, OR
Craters of the Moon National Park in Idaho
Idaho Potato Museum
Great Salt Lake (we went swimming in it)
Moab, Utah
Arches National Park, UT
Canyonlands National Park, UT
Colorado National Monument, CO
Fort Scott National Historical Park, KS
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, SC
Fort Morris State Historic Site, GA
Harris Neck National Wildlife Center, GA
Mighty Eight Air Force Museum, GA
Skidaway Island State Park, GA

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