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The idea here is to TRAVEL THE WORLD regardless of time or budget. It dawned on me one day that even if I had unlimited time and money (which I definitley do not), I still couldn't see everything in the world that I'd like to see--I'm simply not going to live long enough to do it.

But I had a bit of brain wave and soon after the travel envelope was born. This is an actual physical envelope. I typed the name of every country in the world, plus every state in the US on little slips of paper which I then put into the envelope. In the beginning we (myself, my husband, Dave and daugher Catherine) would draw out a slip at random at the beginning of the month and that's where we would go---at least in our minds. We grab some books about the country from the library and put them in our bathroom to look at. We also check out some videos about the country if any. We check it out on googleearth, listen to the music, try the food, maybe even attempt to learn a dance or celebrate a festival.

After the first two years we discovered that even virtual traveling can be tiring, so we travel now whenever I happen to be in the mood.

It's great fun. I especially love it when people I meet have been to the place I'm "visiting" in real life, or get excited and have some virtual adventures of their own. I hope that anyone who comes across this blog will feel welcome to come with us on the trip!



You have a standing reservation to see it all!

Mar 11, 2010

Siegfried's

Oh dear, nothing's changed in 20 years.  When we went to Germany, Austria and Switzerland on our honeymoon the fabulous food was THE major focal point.  Both of our journals mentioned the wonderful sights we saw of course, but the really detailed descriptions were about the food. I haven't changed.   Today, I get to go to the Salt Lake airport to pick up someone for work, but the IMPORTANT thing is that Salt Lake contains Siegfried's Deli. Siegfrieds contains wurst and bread and chocolate and all kinds of imported wonders.  Today I'm going for a loaf of real german rye, a pound of aufschnit (a sampling of deli sausages), three pieces of cake with lots of layers and marzipan, and Mozartkugeln.  I've been looking forward to this and thinking about this FAR too much I fear.

A word about the Mozartkugeln.  Mozart is ALL over everything in Austria.  The kugeln are chocolate truffles wrapped with a picture of Mozart and you can't walk two steps without passing someone selling them in Vienna.  To tell the truth, they're not my favorite, but all chocolate over there is good by definition.  I think I saw some for sale here the last time I was at Target.  Check it out next time you're there.
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