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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!

Jul 20, 2015

July 20, Scotland

Okay, I'm not even going to try to make sense of this day. She had to leave at 5:00 a.m. to get to Scotland, so maybe she's tired, or maybe the haggis was bad, but today's texts have a sort of psychedelic quality to them. Here we go....

Got upgraded to a private room! Oops, nope. Hostel guy messed up.  So she found a tsum tsum purse.


Did well at the ATM--English option broken, but she fine in German. Then found a book on how to knit your own Andy Murray, and offered to get us some tinned Haggis.



She sent this picture. Tribbles? Tribbles in a brewery? Then we get this text.



"You know the candy jelly babies? I got you guys some jelly-atrics." Terrific. Thanks love.

Her room still smells weird. She ate some haggis and it was ok.



She bought a very pretty necklace.


I asked for a summary of her day. I got "Waiting and Walking."

Now she's sharing a room with three very loud spanish speakers. I only hope that she gets some sleep and that tomorrow will make more sense.
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