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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!

Nov 24, 2010

Gardiner's Village

Neat discovery!!!!  Gardiner's Village on about 7800 south and 1100 west in Salt Lake (although I suppose that address is technically West Jordan or something).  Anyway, an old pioneer bought a mill in the 1800's and in the 1990's somebody got a hold of the property and turned it into a wonderful collection of little shops.  Loads of fun to explore and they go completely bananas decorating for the holidays. 

For Halloween the theme is witches adnd there are witches everywhere.  You can even have breakfast with a witch or take a hayride and see a witch. There was a big sale there last Saturday and me and Catherine battled the snow to get there.  Now the theme is elves.  Everything is decorated to the hilt and even though it was sleeting so hard we could hardly see the elves we still had a ball. 
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