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Akaka Falls

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!

Sep 25, 2010

Food!

Ahhh food---especially rich, heavy food with vegetables serving as a minor side condiment--Serbia has good food.  Today we began the day with Palacinka--which are very simple crepes and are apparently sold at little stands everywhere.  Mix 1 egg with 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of flour--heat a pan add a little oil and pour in about 1/4 c of batter and fry.  Serve with jam and powdered sugar.  A little bland for my taste, but a perfectly good start to the day.  For dinner I made a traditional pork and hamburger patty made with some red pepper and paprika, a tomato and cucumber salad, a pastry with a whole lot of butter and feta cheese and then some traditional Christmas bread.  Obviously Serbs aren't going to eat their special Christmas bread with any old meal, but in the interest of experiencing as much of Serbia as possible--I made the bread.  It's a sweet bread made with butter, milk and sugar and my goodness did it rise! I'll try and post the receipe tomorrow--it made two huge loaves--and that's after I set aside some of the dough to make a braid to go around the bread.  Serbs bake a coin inside the cake and whoever finds it gets good luck.  I wrapped a quarter in tinfoil for our bread but none of us have gotten lucky yet.
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Sep 24, 2010

DISNEYLAND!!!!

Oops---I think I left Serbia about a week ago.  I got a new job and to celebrate we're going to Disneyland in October just three weeks away!  Disneyland is my favorite place in the world.  I might have to create a separate place for Disney in this blog. 

However---I did find some neat stuff about Serbia that I kept meaning to post but couldn't because I was too busy chewing my nails about whether I would get this job and then dancing on the ceiling when I did!

Serbian's like pomeranian dogs of all things and sound like wonderful people, although I don't think I am on their side in the conflict in the 90's over Kosovo.  Or rather, I wouldn't have been on the politician's side.  Kosovo has always been a hot spot.  There was a big fight over it back in the 1300's and Serbia has some terrific medieval fortresses.
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