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My husband died in April 2007. He was the love of my life and my traveling companion for more than 50 years.

Backpacking in Europe while we were students, beach holidays with our toddlers, camping with the children and later just the two of us. After our retirement long, wonderful travels: Africa, the USA, and so many dear countries in Western Europe.

Now I don’t travel much anymore. Sometimes just a week with one of my children and their family.

But last year I thought: ”I do have to see New York City.” And I loved every minute of that trip, with my daughter.

Bitten by the travel bug again? I don’t know.
But so many countries and cities are still there and they keep saying: “Come and visit us! We are so beautiful!”

Now first on my list is Venice, Italy!

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes
lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape,
remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,
lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons,
memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
Truman Capote

William Butler Yeats (1865?1939)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

P.J.C.Gabri?l:Watercourse near Abcoude". 1878.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Netherlands

Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green..
Willows whose Trunks beside the shadows stood
Of their own higher half, and willowy swamp..
Farmhouses that at anchor seem'd--in the inland sky
The fog-transfixing Spires..
Water, wide water, greenness and green banks,
And water seen..

Rosie the Riveter

"Where Have All the Grandmas gone".

In the dim and distant past
When life's tempo wasn't so fast,
Grandma used to rock and knit,
Crochet, tat and baby sit.

When the kids were in a jam,
They could always call on Gram.

But today she's in the gym
Exercising to keep slim.

She's checking the web or surfing the net,
Sending some e-mail or placing a bet.
Nothing seems to stop or block her,
Now that Grandma's off her rocker.

Author unknown.

And who is Rosie the Riveter? Read more about her on my Sacramento page

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." George Bernard Shaw.*

some travel pictures

Nant, Aveyron.

France

"the smoke, that thunders".

Victoria Falls Zambia

View from Navajo Bridge, Arizona.

Websites about vaccinations:

Traveller's Health(National Center for Infectious diseases)

World Health Organization: about vaccinations and much more

About Malaria

Cape Agoulhas, SA, lighthouse.

Some Like Poetry

Some -
thus not all. Not even the majority of all but the minority.
Not counting schools, where one has to,
and the poets themselves,
there might be two people per thousand.

Like -
but one also likes chicken soup with noodles,
one likes compliments and the color blue,
one likes an old scarf,
one likes having the upper hand,
one likes stroking a dog.

Poetry -
but what is poetry.
Many shaky answers
have been given to this question.
But I don't know and don't know and hold on to it
like to a sustaining railing.

Wislawa Szymborska (b.1923, Poland.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996.)

translation by
Regina Grol

Zambia, sunset

MY TRAVEL PAGES

Zambia
Portugal
South-Africa
Durban
Province of Kwazulu- Natal
Cape Town, Garden Route, West Coast
Clanwilliam
Hluhluwe Game Reserve
USA
Arizona
California
Death Valley N.P
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
Morro Bay
Pacific Grove
Joshua Tree National Park
Lee Vining
Lone Pine
Anna (IL)
France
The Netherlands
Amsterdam
Switzerland
China, with old photo's
Bomarzo, Italy
Victoria Falls N.P., Zimbabwe
Sacramento
Laws, CA
New York City, USA

Intro Updated Apr 11, 2011
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was_the_beav Mar 11, 2012 at 8:13 AM Report Abuse

Thank you so much for your kind birthday wish, dear Ellen. I so miss our chats on the way to Antarctica...
olja1234 Sep 14, 2011 at 1:48 PM Report Abuse

Hi Anna, a very Happy Birthday to you and all the best!
RickinDutch Sep 14, 2011 at 9:24 AM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday! I'm trying to get my mom back travelling. She's 85. Glad to know there is hope!
pieter_jan_v Sep 13, 2011 at 11:57 PM Report Abuse

Gefeliciteerd. PJ
daarth Sep 6, 2011 at 11:15 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday!
alza Sep 29, 2010 at 12:39 PM Report Abuse

Hello Ellen... didn't know your name til now :) you'll probably always be an Anna (not pineapple) to me. :) Nice smile on your passport pic! Good to see you, cheers! lou
sim1 Dec 25, 2008 at 3:51 AM Report Abuse

Prettige Kerstdagen en een heel Gelukkig Nieuwjaar 2009 gewenst Anna! :-)
La_Holandesa Dec 5, 2007 at 2:48 AM Report Abuse

Hoi Anna! Hoor de wind waait door de bomen....Prettig Sinterklaasfeest!!! and dont eat too many chocoladeletters ;) Veel groetjes van mij!
caravaggio Jul 16, 2007 at 11:16 AM Report Abuse

cutest page in VT...
VincentJJ Feb 6, 2007 at 1:55 AM Report Abuse

In Holland, or somewhere else? Natte sneeuw hier nu! groeten.