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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 23, 2015

July 22, Scotland

I think Catherine must be dead tired. She said the best thing about the day was 5 guys burgers.

But she took a bus tour and saw Mackintosh house, which seems to be part of the Hunterian art gallery, which in turn is part of the university? I'm getting a little tired myself. The house seems to be a modern architechtral wonder, full of natural light.

(I hope she got some good pictures, because it's impossible to pull anything off of the internet. It must all be copyrighted.)

Then she spent the remainder of the evening waiting forever at the bus station because everything else was closed.

Not sure when she got a hold of this rootbeer, but she says she didn't realize how much she missed it until she had some. Funny how the body works, we're not big rootbeer drinkers, but I felt the same way about peanut butter when we lived in Japan.

Also not sure when she saw the bagpipers, but hey, it's Scotland.


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