Segolily's VirtualTourist Home Page

Well, I thought it about time I revamp my homepage. Maybe you all would like to know a little bit more about me and my travels.

The first trip I remember taking was to Yellowstone. We stayed in a cabin at Fishing Bridge that had a little cast iron stove to cook on. I remember fishing and bears and boating on the lake and mud pots and geysers. My mother says we went to Yellowstone so often she finally swore there must be somewhere else to spend her free time. So I was married before I made it back to Yellowstone.

The first time I saw the ocean was at Seaside Oregon. I had slept on the way there. I woke up and went out to the wide beach and walked up to where the water lapped at my feet. I was amazed.

Mom was my travel instigator, she was the one who planned and organized our trips. She made sure we got to Disneyland once, but most of our summer vacations were spent camping in the forests and deserts of Utah. We got our sleeping bags with S&H green stamps !! We camped in the Uintahs, and Bear Lake, hiked the trails of the Wasatch, visited Zion's and Bryce, Grand Canyon and Lake Powell, Capitol Reef, Moab and Mesa Verde. Everywhere we went Mom would always stop at the roadside history and geology signs, take us to the visitors centers and I learned early to see geology and plant life in its natural environment. I really should have become a botanist. We also went to every swimming hole she could get us to. We all remember the time at the Great Salt Lake when I accidently swallowed/breathed in some of that 24% salt water and couldn't catch my breath for what was way longer than comfortable.

Dad would take us to Vernal for deer hunt and it was his bike racing that took us on trips as we got older. The last trip we took before I married was to Bisbee and Douglas AZ for a bike race where he won his second national title.

The first purchase we made as a couple was a Springbar Tent. We went to Antelope Island to break it in. Our first major trip was to California for a friends wedding. We enjoyed Disneyland, the Sequoia's and San Francisco.

Traveling is one thing my hubby and I both enjoy. Together we've traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Moab, the Canadian Rockies, all over California, Grand Canyon, across the US and back, London and southwest England, and northern France among others- not to mention all the trips around Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada.

I worked at Marriott Reservations for 12 years and had some great trips with them. We saw Yosemite with 18 inches of fresh snow while staying at the Tenaya Lodge (since reflagged), Orlando at the World Center Marriott -- very nice! The most incredible was a 10 day trip to Hong Kong, Singapore and Bali, simply the trip of a lifetime.

Once our boys started playing baseball there were tournaments mostly in St George, Mesquite and Las Vegas, but also Colorado and Omaha, Portland, Kansas City, and Tucson.
We've taken each of our boys on a trip for their senior year, one wanted to visit King Arthur and another General Patton. The other just wanted a cruise, so I chose the Western Caribbean. Those have been great trips with one on one time as our boys grew into men and began their own journeys. Our daughter's trip will have to wait. She wants to visit Little House on the Prairie spots but her senior trip was postponed as that was the year we went to Cooperstown. So we will get her trip in sooner or later.

Our last trip as a whole family was to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back. It was amazing.

You can tell when we got the digital camera-- those are the travel pages I have built. Maybe someday just as a kind of personal journal I'll scan some of the others, but that will have to wait.

Now that the kids are grown and we have the opportunity of deciding where WE want to go without kids restrictions our options have opened up. This year it was New York City and the Oregon Coast. We will get back to Australia and (I hope) Bali one day. And we loved France so much I'm going to have to find a way back there too.

Whenever anyone asks I always say my dream travel destination would be a toss up between Taj Mahal and Rio de Janeiro. But I almost got a trip to Brazil this year and Rio would definitely have to be only the beginning of a trip through that fabulous country.

I am a middle child, married to a middle child. More and more I feel that seems to explain me. We have four fantastic kids, the oldest son set to be married here very soon. It is the youngest son you will see in many of my pictures. He didn't mind having his picture taken :-)

I work in home health. I've met so many wonderful people and their families. When we were planning our trip to France I happened to be working with three or four veterans who had served in France, one drove a tank across Europe and another was in the Battle of Bastogne. I felt like knowing their stories made our trip so much more personal.

I like to read, I like history and geology, plants and trees and birds and flowers. (One highlight of my trip to New York City was seeing the cardinal at the Botanical Gardens----absolutely ecstatic!). I used to hike, but the body is starting to go its own way. I feel best when I am away from the noise of the crowd, in the quiet places where the wind can touch my face, and the birds can call my name, the waves can sing their song and the sky is blue or covered in stars.

So check out my Utah Page, thats where my heart is. I promise, really, someday, very soon I will do a great Salt Lake City page! If I could take a week off and visit Salt Lake it would be easy, but like that's going to happen...

Thanks for visiting.
Say hello, let me know you stopped by, I'd love to hear from you all.

Lil

Oh, PS. The title is taken from the University of Utah fight song. I am an alumna.