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From around 6 months old I started my love affair with travel. It's not just the trip, but i love glossing over guidebooks, the planning and the flying. Yes, i am an aviation dork. My father started me on this trend. He worked in the aerospace industry and is a glider pilot. Which i am now getting into. A few years ago I worked for a different aerospace company and became more intrigued with planes. For years, i have been very interested in the mechanics of airplanes. One of my favorite museums is the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. If i had been taller i would have possibly become a commercial or military pilot. Alas, i am only 157 cm or 5'2".

For the past five years, my husband and I have been working and living in Singapore. It's such a great travel base, as well as having probably the best airport in the world. Also, you gotta love Singapore airlines. We are guaranteed to stay here until December of 2007. We love it here and don't want to leave-well not yet, anyway. Hopefully we will find more work or otherwise, who knows where we will end up.

I am the product of two people, who love to travel. My father is from Vienna, Austria and moved to the states to study, which is where he met my American mother. Things escalated when i met my husband. He has family all over the western US, so we now have a legitimate excuse to travel more.

Before traveling and moving to Singapore, we did a short stint in Gothenberg, Sweden. Even though it was the dead of winter when we arrived, i really fell in love with Sweden, which is a wonderful country.

My husband and I finally got our advanced open water certification. Southeast Asia is one of the most beautiful places to dive. We knew we would regret it if we didn't do it. So far we have dived in Malaysia, Maldives and Thailand. Now that we are divers, i think our travel dream list has almost doubled.

In August 2006, my husband and i had a son. We look forward to taking him traveling and filling his passport with lots of colorful stamps. My one year old son has already been to the united states, japan, thailand, philippines, australia, china and malaysia.

Favorite historical sites- Petra, Jordan, Roman ruins in Rome, Angkor temples, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Farvorite place to see castles- Loire, France
Favorite historical home- Louis XIV's Versailles or Hearst's San Simeon, California and Hudson River Valley, NY State
Favorite city- Tokyo. So hip, but ooh so expensive!
Favorite romantic city-Amsterdam, where i got engaged
Favorite place to work- Singapore of course
Favorite Food city- Singapore, Bangkok, New York City
Favorite Shopping city- Bangkok. Two words, Chatuchak market!
Favorite city for that Indochine experience- Luang Prabang, Laos
Prettiest Asian city- Hoi An, Vietnam, Kyoto, Japan
Prettiest city in North America- Quebec City, Canada
Prettiest city in Europe- Bruges, Belgium and Salzburg, Austria
Favorite Hotel-Boyers Les Crayeres, Reims, France.
Favorite museum city in the United States-Washington, D.C.
Favorite museum city in Europe- London
Favorite Natural Wonder- Niagra Falls. The Canadian side is prettier.
Favorite Camping Experience-waking up in the Wadi Rum desert, Jordan
Favorite National Park: Acadia National Park, Maine
Favorite dive area so far: Maldives
City that I like that I didn't think I would: Austin, Texas, Manama, Bahrain, and Macau
Favorite Skyline- Hong Kong and Auckland, New Zealand
Overrated city- Los Angeles, Paris and Hong Kong
Underrated city-Stockholm
Favorite Airport-Singapore. The mecca of airports.
Worst Airport: LAX, Paris' Charles De Gaulle (use Orly).
Favorite Baseball Park- Wrigley Field, Chicago
Favorite place for wine tastings-Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Favorite city to get lost in-Rome, Copenhagen

It's not easy to put a list together of my dream destinations, which changes with my mood. I am sure if i won the lottery, it would be an easier decision.

Here are some of the places i hope to go, someday:

-Antarctica
-Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
-Iceland
-Alaska
-Mongolia
-Libya, Morocco, Egypt
-South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania
-Peru, Argentina, Belize and Honduras
-New Zealand's south island

Dream Dive trips:
-Sulawesi, Indonesia
-Similian Islands, Thailand
-Sipidan island, Malaysia
-Yap
-Belize
-Great Barrier Reef, Oz
-Cayman Islands
-Galapagos Islands
and i am sure countless other places

Dec/Jan 07- New York City, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New Mexico
March-07 Manila, Philippines
April 07- Sydney
May 07- Shanghai, Xian and Beijing
June 07-went to Malacca, Malaysia for the day. Does that count?
Aug 07- ubud, Bali
Sept/Oct 07- Istanbul, western Austria and Basel, Switzerland
Dec 07- Philadelphia, Santa Fe and Los Angeles, USA
Jan 08- Seoul, korea

If you want to see my whole travel history while living in Singapore, check out my hubby's vt page, Rodan44

Feb 08- over Chinese New Year. Heading to Hokkaido to see the Sapporo snow festival
April 08- Capetown, South Africa to see friends
May 08- back to Philadelphia, USA to see family

summer/fall 08- maybe Dalat, Vietnam or Lijang, China?