Travel history

Sharing your history is a great way to build a report and so I have built these maps of where I have been. One of these days I am going to travel to North Dakota, I know I will. There must be some reason to go to North Dakota, right? Maybe we will rent a cabin there some day.






visited 48 states (96%)
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I think of myself as a well traveled person but when I look at this world map there is a lot of gray. Unlike with a lot of things in my life right now the gray in this image doesn't make me sad it motivates me to start planning my next big vacation.



visited 5 states (2.22%)
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Welcome my new Somewhere Else Travel blog. I am very excited about sharing all kinds of travel info with you. I have a hard time explaining to people why I love travel or how much I love it, but I will do my best here on this blog.

I figure a great place to start would be to share with you where I plan to travel next.

Trips we have planned:

• Where: Slade, Kentucky When: August 6 - 10 2009 Why: family reunion
• Where: Portland, Oregon When: August 12 - 26 2009 aprox Why: visit husband's family
• Where: Fort Myers, Florida When: September 24 - 28 2009 Why: my 10 year high school reunion
  

Trips we hope to take in the next year (or so):

• Week at Desire Resort - that would be just me and hubby
• Long weekend train trip - the little guy loves trains so we want to take a short train ride to somewhere close like Houston or Memphis or somewehere like that then spend a night or two in a hotel and return home. We could take a longer train trip but right now the price and time doesn't seem worth it, though I think that would be nice, but not sure it's a good idea to keep a toddler stuck on a train for days at a time.
• Girls trip to Wiscon next year
  

Dream trips:

• Paris
• Going back to Australia with Hubby and the Little Guy
• A cruise with Hubby and the Little Guy
• A Windjammer type cruise where you can work on the vessel while you sail.
  

Sprucing up

Welcome back Somewhere Else Travel blog. It's been a while but I am dusting you off and presenting you to the world. You need a little sprucing up but I think in a few weeks of doing a little here and a little there you will be good as new. You are still looking pretty good if I do say so myself. I can't wait to get to know you all over again.

Weirdly accurate

Your rainbow is shaded red and violet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is says about you: You are a creative person. You appreciate energetic people. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Cuba there we come...

...Maybe. There are talks that Obama may lift the Travel restrictions with Cuba. If he does then sign me up. I have always wanted to go to Cuba.

Ready to go.

It's like I've only been home from a huge trip and I already feel like I have to get out of town. I guess that is how you know you are a traveler. That only a few days at home leave you ready to get out on the road once again. I don't know when our next trip will be but it will not be too long I am sure. I really wish I had a video camera to start my podcast while in Montreal but...

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Snow, snow and more snow.

There is snow falling it is supposed to fall all day and into tomorrow. Leaving the Montreal area with 20 centimeters of snow which is about 7.8 inches. My husband went off to work today, he says where the company is located is sort of out of the way in an industrial area that is an up and coming artsy area but that it does not look like a place where snow plows go through regularly so hopefully he can get out to make it back to the hotel tonight. It is supposed to be 22 degrees today and tomorrow then drop off to 9 degrees on Friday, that's Fahrenheit by the way. As I look out the window the snow is really starting to come down now much more determined than the fluffy flakes that were falling when I was down stairs eating breakfast. I still haven't decided if I am going to brave the elements or not. I am not sure if there is anywhere that I wanted to go that is worth getting out in this weather. There is a Metro station just next door so I could go a lot of places. If I wanted I could just ride the Metro around town. There are many choices, I just have to make one. For now I am hanging out in the hotel drinking my coffee.

Notre Dame Basilica

I can't even begin to bring this location justice. I doubt I can put into words the way you feel when you walk into the Notre-Dame Basilica. Or at least the way I felt. I gave my recommended 5.00$ donation, I chatted for a minute with the people tending the door. They were very nice and very interested in New Orleans and what I thought about Montreal both places having a French History seemed to give us a common ground and I was a bit sad I do not know more about the French history in New Orleans.
The basilica is beautiful beyond words. It was built in 1829 on a site that had held mass since 1642. They now hold mass twice every day and four times on Sunday. Since I did not have anywhere to go or any pressing time limits I sat down in a pew for a while. Reading the pamphlet they gave me at the door, listening to the sounds of the old building and watching the people. Not a single one of my pictures represent the place accurately in any way. My eyes had tears in them as I walked around looking at all the painting and carvings. If a church is supposed to be a temple to honor God he could not be disappointed with this one. It seems as though each inch of wall space that is not holding a piece of art is covered in ornately carved wood. Windows of stained glass fill the the space with a soft light adding all the more to the ambiance. Buildings like this hold something wonderful that I can not explain. I am very glad I had the opportunity to spend time here. Picture #1 - the Altar and front of the basilica from the pew where I sat, #2 - confessionals and altar in the background, #3 - organ in the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur (a second chapel behind the first) and #4 - a wood carved statue of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre-Dame.
I will be posting all the pictures I took on Flickr but I suggest you go to the Basilica's website for a better look and more info.

Santas

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