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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!

Aug 8, 2012

The Peter Pan Cup

I was checking to see if London's Hyde park was as wonderful as New York's Central Park (oh yeah) and I found this wonderful crazy tradition. The serpentine river flows through the park and every year since 1864 there has been a race on Christmas Day in the river. London gets plenty cold in winter and the river is about 4 degrees centigrade. That's cold enough that only club members are allowed to participate in the race for fear that people who are not used to the cold will die. The race is only 100 yards but I bet it feels like 1000. The reason it's called the Peter Pan Cup is because JM Barrie, author of Peter Pan, awarded the trophy in 1904 and it's been the Peter Pan Cup ever since.

Speaking of crazy. I enjoy reading Ripley's believe it or not books, and I've noticed that a disporportionate number of people in those books are from England.

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