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Current Location: Saskatoon | Enjoying the view, Grasslands National Park, SK |
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| Exploring Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico |
DAILY DAWDLINGS Busy with a baby and a new house! |
| Climbing Volcan Pacaya, Guatemala |
TRAVELS I've technically been travelling since childhood. My first trip was to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.A. with my family in the mid-eighties. Afterwards we went to Czechoslovakia in 1989 to visit my relatives, whom I was meeting for the first time. There were subsequent trips to Europe and a Caribbean cruise, but I was a teenager during these vacations, and didn't really care much about anything outside of what my friends were doing, where the next party was, what the newest fashions were! I developed a serious interest in travelling, a.k.a "The Travel Bug," during the 6 months that I spent in Europe in 2004 studying abroad for a university semester. My exchange program landed me at Keele University in England, but in my free time I also travelled a bit around continental Europe. The day I returned home, I cried at the airport because I didn't want it to stop. Since my return from Europe, I have had an incessant urge to go away. Short trips have satiated my thirst temporarily, but ideally I would like to live abroad or find a job that allows/necessitates me to travel. |
| Zip-lining, Tsitsikamma, South Africa |
Recent travels:New Mexico February 2009 New York City December 2008 Churchill, Manitoba November 2008 Milwaukee, Wisconsin September 2008 Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, AB/SK August 2008 Spruce Woods PP, Manitoba June 2008 Saskatchewan May-August 2008 (work) Future Travel Plans/Ideas:California February 2010 Florida Spring 2010 Calgary (Stampede!) July 2010 Toronto October 2010 (wedding!) |
READINGS It's sad to think I don't have enough years in my life to read all the books I would like to! Currently reading: "Havana Nocturne: How the Mob owned Cuba...and then lost it to the Revolution" by T. J. English On my waiting list: "The Life of Trees" by Peter Thomas; "The October Horse" by Colleen McCullough (on hold); "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin (off and on, someday I'll get through it!!) Just finished: "A False Dawn: My Life as a Gypsy Woman in Slovakia" by Ilona Lackova. The textbook-style, small print, border-to-border appearance put me off at first sight, but the book was really engaging and provided an insightful view of Slovak-Roma (gypsy) relations from a Roma perspective. The book reads like a story-telling. |
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as truth was really true, there would be little hope of advance.
~Orville Wright
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but...not so open your brains fall out.
~Carl Sagan
The questions you ask set limits on the answers you find...
~Temple Grandin
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~ Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) |
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Bwana_Brown Tue Sep 15, 2009 02:27 UTC
Thank you for the birthday wishes! It turned out to be a quiet one but I got to do exactly what I wanted! Nice to hear from you again Barbara, and good luck with your baby and the house! | Redlats Thu Sep 10, 2009 18:28 UTC
Wow - what a change! Two months old already. Congratulations to the both of you. Will you still be working at Grasslands occasionally? I just bought a Parks pass, so on our next trip west (this fall), we might visit your park. | pchamlis Sat Aug 1, 2009 21:49 UTC
Barb schweeeeetheart. Happy Birthday from Florida, one day late. Still in Canada? We are a-headin' to the Maritimes in about six weeks, very much looking forward to some cooler weather. Florida summers are brutal. | calcaf38 Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:00 UTC
Have a great birthday + much travel and reading. |
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