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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 17, 2012

Emipre State Building

Everyone is familiar with the Empire State Building. It's one of the few memories I have of something famous from when I lived there when I was little. The other memory is when we went back to NYC on a family road trip when I was a teen. I was so surprised at how huge the bottom of the building was. I don't know what I was expecting, but the building is huge in every direction. 


Some fun facts are that the building turned 80 years old in 2011 and from the 86th floor lookout you can see for 80 miles on a clear day.  I also like that they light the top of the building in different colors according to the holiday. Not so attractive is the price--$21 each to get to the 86th floor observation desk and $15 more on top of that to get to the 102 floor. I would love to visit NYC, but I'm truly frightened by the prices.
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