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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!

Jan 8, 2015

Riverside, CA

Perhaps the best and most important place in California is Riverside, where my daughter Catherine went on her mission. She was originally called to the Corona mission, but was then asked to help open the Riverside mission.


We were surprised to hear they'd opened a new mission, but not at all surprised that Catherine sent to help. She's a natural leader, and fearless of going to new places. Unfortunately, Riverside does not apparently have good doctors. Catherine became seriously sick and saw many doctors in the area none of which had any idea what was wrong. I could forgive that because the doctors here in Utah have no idea either. They finally sent her home with a scary diagnosis of Pancreatitis. About the only thing the doctors here solidly agree on is that whatever is wrong, it's certainly not pancreatitis.

On the way to deciding that they had no idea, they took out her gall bladder. Which led to the number one absolute best mission picture ever.


That's MY girl---standing as a witness at ALL times and in ALL places. She did some wonderful work while she was there, and Riverside will be forever blessed.
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