Monday, July 25, 2011

See the World

I have always loved to travel. I love seeing how other people live, their cultures and values, what they find beautiful, their food, their jewelry, their clothes, their architecture, their landscapes. It's all new and different and excites me. 
"Twenty years from nowyou will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."  - Mark Twain


This is what I want to experience:


Petra, Jordan

Yosemite National Park, California

“When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.” 
– Edward Dahlberg


Angkor Wat, Cambodia


Taj Mahal, India

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
-Aldous Huxley


The Great Pyramids, Egypt


Venice, Italy

The Sphinx, Egypt

Easter Island

The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, Egypt

Hagia Sophia, Turkey

"I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine".
-Caskie Stinnett



The Eiffel Tower, France

The Ely Cathedral, England

Niagara Falls, Canada

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” –William Least Heat Moon

Loch Ness, Scotland


Cristo Redentor, Brazil

“Not all those who wander are lost.” –J. R. R. Tolkien 

Barcelona, Spain

St Peters Basilica, Italy

The Great Wall, China

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag

Machu Picchu, Peru


Bali, Indonesia

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mont St. Michel, France

Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, China

Tower of Pisa, Italy

Jerusalem, Israel

Victoria Falls, Zambia

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.:
-Hilaire Belloc

Windmills in Holland


Colosseum, Italy

The Little Mermaid, Denmark

Whirinaki Forest, New Zealand

"Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast withouth seeing anything"
- Charles Kuralt

St. Basil's Cathedral, Russia


Aurora (lights in the sky)

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
-Freya Stark

Trevi Fountain, Italy


Table Mountain, South Africa

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
-St. Augustine

Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/Peru


"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
-Henry Miller



Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Things That Make Me Happy!


trying new things



making cute things




picnics!
                  with delicious food



getting new cute clothes





               playing at the lake





Lucy!!




finding ugly scratchy uncomfortable things at thrift stores



 hiking with austin and lucy



and beautiful waterfalls!




Monday, July 18, 2011

everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. 
loneliness hurts. 
rejection hurts. 
losing someone hurts. 
envy hurts.
everyone seems to get these things confused with love.
but in reality 
love is the only thing in this world 
that covers up all pain 
and makes someone feel wonderful again. 

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Friday, July 8, 2011