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See the World for Free

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!

May 14, 2010

cool site

It's a bit tricky to get information on Suriname.  The library had a Fodor's of South America, but the entries for Suriname are pretty boring.  Ditto most of the internet sites.  However, tropilab.com is a happy exception.  They've got a great presentation with lots of pictures.  It looks like they'll eventually have recipies too, but those are mostly under construction just now.  My impression is that Suriname has your basic history---settled by such and such, discovered, fought over now independent--and some nice buildings to commemorate the history.  Mostly though, it has spectacular rain forest.  So that's where I'm spending the month--mentally flying over the canopy with the parrots, running over the ground with the army ants, feeding the piranha (with food I brought with me, not with myself in person) and checking out the strangler fig trees.  Rainforests house some gloriously weird creatures!
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