Vacations & Traveling

I have traveled the country from east coast to west coast and loved it all.  I have met online friends and made life-long friends in traveling. 

I was born in a small town in South Georgia called Folkston.  We left there when I was still small and moved to Brunswick.  I attended school thru second grade in Brunswick schools.  Half-way thru my second grade year, we moved to Mt. Pleasant where I lived until I got married. 

In 1998, I moved to California and lived there for a year before I decided that I had enough of the weirdness and moved back to Georgia.  Stayed home a few months and then moved up to Oregon, Ohio.  It snowed the whole 5 months that we lived there.  I decided that I didn't like that either and came back home to Georgia once again.  It's a good thing I never sold my house here, since I always end up back here anyway.  Growing up I always wanted to travel and get out of Wayne County.  There is nothing there, and nothing to do, and just not where I wanted to be.  Yet, I always end up back home. 

In 2007, I left Wayne County and moved to Appling County and have been here since.  It's smaller than Wayne County.  There's even less to do here, and absolutely nothing "fun".  This is now where I call "Home".

My first trip in a plane was to San Antonio, TX.  That is a beautiful city and I would love to visit again someday.  We were there for a week and saw lots of stuff and visited River Walk, which was completely and totally amazing!!!  We also visited all the usual sight-seeing places.  The one place I wanted to see so bad, The Alamo,  bored me to death when I actually got to go.  You can't talk in there, have to be careful what you touch because it will fall apart.  Just not what I was expecting. 

Since that trip, I have been to Niagara Falls, crossed the Canadian border, drove to Warren, NH to meet my friend Anne and her kids in person, been to dirt track races in Meridian, MS, car shows in Charlotte, NC, NASCAR races in Charlotte, NC and Daytona, FL., two cruises to the Bahamas with my sister, which was awesome and much needed! 

Cruising is a great vacation for a great price.  If you have never been to Half Moon Cay, Bahamas, you should go.  The water is beautiful, the beach is amazing and you can sit under a clamshell to keep from getting blistered while you read a book or take a nap on the beach.  I did both.  There was food all day everyday.  Any kind of food you can imagine!  I tried new foods at the urging of my sister who is a total "foodie".   On the second cruise, we did the Chef's Table.  I would probably say that was the most amazing food I have ever eaten in my life. 

Of course my favorite vacation was to Panama, Central America.  It was gorgeous there.  We stayed at the Gamboa Resort and did the excursions where we got to feed the monkeys and went thru the rainforest on the overhead tram thingy.  We saw real live Toucans.. ya know like the ones you see on the cereal box! We saw the mean monkeys and sloths, and crocodiles and all sorts of trees and had fruits that we had never had before and met lots and lots of people.  I learned from that trip that if I was gonna go out of the country that I needed to learn the basics of the native language of the country that I would be visiting.  After you have been on an airplane that long, you can expect to have to find a restroom when you finally land and get thru customs.  Spanish word for bathroom is banos.  That was the first word I learned when we landed. 

I'm ready for my next vacation and thinking it will not get here soon enough.  I just have to decide where I want to go for this one... I'm thinking I wanna go across the big pond and go to England and see where my ancestors came from.