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Callavetta   
Geese are best left naked


Real Name: Katherine
Lives In: San Francisco, US
Birth Date: May 10
Member Since: Dec 13, 2002
Last Login: May 13, 2008   18:33 UTC
Member's Time: May 13, 2008   12:17 PDT
VT Rank: 273
Deals Rank: Unranked
Travel Interests: Wine Tasting, Archeology, Other Arts and Culture, Cycling, Sailing/Boating



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A Grasshopper's Travel Pages

by Callavetta - last update: Mar 24, 2008

Are we there yet?

Perfect day in Pacific Grove
We spent Easter weekend playing with family in Pacific Grove. What a lovely weekend it was! The weather was perfect.

Once a journey is designed, equipped and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
Photo by John with my camera

The Big Ditch

How do you photograph the Grand Canyon? I'm convinced that you simply cannot. Nothing can surpass that first glimpse. The AHA value alone is staggering. Everyone told me "you're going to love the Grand Canyon. It's so big." But that did not prepare me for how big. It's HUGE. It's HUMUNGOUS. It goes on FOREVER. And my modest digital (which is, I've been told, along with my laptop, at least 3000 years old) and my paltry photography skills, cannot begin to capture the colors and nuances and shades and depth and distance and grandeur.... Get the point? It should be an absolute must on everyone's life list.

First trip to Florida (Oct. 2004)

In October I made my first trip to Florida. Leaving snowy Keystone and arriving in hot, humid Florida was like stepping into a new world! Or maybe like stepping into my past; my wild and free college days in San Diego. Visit my Florida pages for pictures chronicaling my long weekend in the Sunshine State.
The Peaceful Atlantic
Notre Dame

Whirlwind London/Paris Trip (July 2004)

In July it was off to London and Paris with my niece, Gabriella to celebrate her Graduation. We made the most out of 7 short days with a Paris Fashion Show, London Theater, Big Bus tours, a visit to the London Tower, lunch and shopping on the Champs.... so much to do, so little time!

Roma (April 2004)

Easter Week in Roma! It's a good thing that airplane travel and labor have short memories! Otherwise the human race would come to an end and we'd never travel.

9 hours from Rome to NYC followed by 6 hours from NYC to San Francisco. Ugh!

But I'm gradually building my Rome pages so if you're interested in a Grasshopper's perspecitve of Roma, stay tuned.
Walk where the Caesars walked
Off the coast of Mendocino

March in California (2004)

This year, my March has been spent exploring much of my own state, California. And what a remarkable state it is.

I began the month with a drive down the famous Big Sur Coastline to LA to watch a friend do her first Marathon. We ate crab sandwiches on a cliff at Rocky Point, marvelled at elephant seals in San Simeon, and enjoyed dining on wonderful Italian food in Manhattan Beach.

Then I took a trip to the Mendocino Coast to visit friends from the East Coast at their rented house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific, tasted wines in the Alexander Valley, and raced a BMW driver around the curvy roads on Highway 128. Coming home, over the Golden Gate Bridge on a gloriously sunny day gave me a view of the City that was simply unparralled!

I LOVE traveling and seeing all the amazing things the world has to offer. But California is truly a miniature of some of those very same amazing things.

How LOW can they go!!!!! (Dec. 2003)

Airfares to London that is..... My weekly peek at the United Airline website E-Fares showed me a fare to London for $199 (excluding taxes). I can't pass that up! As a premiere exec. flyer I get double miles so this $297 fare (with taxes)will earn me enough miles for a domestic trip. I'm paying more than that to fly to Colorado next week!

So Jill, Lorna and I will take a quickie 4 day weekend in one of my favorite cities. I never should have gone to see "Love Actually". It made me crave British accents, double decker buses, the Thames, and a London Pub Crawl.
Off we go for a weekend in London

Why Travel?

When I was growing up, my father dubbed me "Grasshopper". "You never think about tomorrow", he said. "You are always thinking about today!"

Then I grew up and became a Mom, a single Mom, and I became an "Ant". One day I realized that I had lost my Grasshopper. And I missed it.

Today I cherish my Grasshopper. Travelling is one of the ways that I have learned to nurture that part of my spirit. The world is so large. It is so easy to see only the smallest part, that is right in front of us. My goal is to see as much of it as I can. And to embrace the differences that make us a Universe.

Travel and other worldly tests

How big is your footprint? Take this test and see how much of your share of the planet you are using up.

Test your toilet knowledge around the world.

From the Vagabond puppeteers: Jetset Chaussettes

Callavetta's Albums
Title [Click to view]Travel YearPictures
The Art of Solo Travel- 4
Family and Friends- 8
Watching the Aspens Change- 3
Reading my way to other places- 7
GeoCaching and other odds and ends- 7
Favorite places- 1

Comments for Callavetta
AnnamariaC. Tue May 13, 2008 15:32 UTC
 Happy Belated Birthday Bella Caterina..Un Abbraccio...
Elodie_Caroline Tue May 13, 2008 10:33 UTC
 A very happy belated birthday to you Kathryn, I do hope that you had the most magnificent day. I am so sorry that I missed it on the day, the last week has been a bit of a whirl. Love Elodie
mtncorg Mon May 12, 2008 04:28 UTC
 Hope your birthday weekend went great!!!
DAO Sat May 10, 2008 22:16 UTC
 HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM WAKEFIELD!
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