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

So it looks like I've finally given in to this blog craze! So I'll start off with the usual get to know you sort of ordeal

• I can be a quiet person.  In fact I think a lot of people think I am shy.  But it's more of a "I'm content with quietness" sort of thing than a "I'm too shy to talk to you" thing.  I don't feel the need to fill up silence with chatting.
• I doodle.  A lot. I think I'm a little A.D.D. since I can never listen to anything without drawing some strange design on every paper in sight.  My teachers absolutely hate it.
• I am a terrible listener.  Most of the time I listen for about a minute and then talk about myself.  It's a really selfish habit I have and I am trying to be better, OR I just sit there and don't have any brilliant pieces of advice, BUT I'm good at keeping secrets which should count for something right?
• I go through phones like toilet paper. 6 in the past year. All beauties.
• I drive a cute little truck! She has no cup holders, no tape deck, bad tires, no AC, the heater doesn't work simultaneously with the radio, and I absolutely suck at driving her.. BUT it's still fun:)
• I love photography.  My dream job is to be a photographer for National Geographic. That would be absolutely amazing.
• I love to laugh ha ha ha ha loud and long and clear ha ha ha ha! No but really I do. I will probably laugh at anything remotely funny. Especially when nobody else is. Which then makes the situation even funnier
• Ducks. are. adorable. I went to the pet store the other day and... they sell ducks!!! Who knew?! And now ever since then, I want one. I can't stop thinking about it. Ever. ducks. ducks. ducks!
• I love being with friends, even when we're doing nothing at all.  I just wanna be with them and have fun all the time!
• Most people drive around, windows down, blasting rap or pop or rock or something unoriginal like that.  Not us.  We are classy people. Jazz is all you'll hear coming from our car.
• I kind of like clothes. A lot.  
• I do a little victory dance every time I get a green arrow to turn left - except not so much lately with driving a stick and all.. but it still makes me extremely happy
• I ALWAYS have something in my hair.  Always.  (right now its a black and white feather extension. first time I've ever paid someone else to put something in it)
• I honestly do not like haunted houses.  I don't get the thrill of going in and scaring the crap out of yourself.  Most of the time I don't even get scared, I just get an awful nasty feeling. So ya. I'm pretty boring when it comes to stuff like that.
• TimTams are amazing.  I could quite easily eat a whole package and not share with ANYONE. And I wouldn't feel bad at all.
• I live for the summer time. the sun. the tan. the time. the friendships. the memories. the late nights. the carefreeness. all of it.  Winter is alright, you get to wear scarves and gloves and leg warmers without looking idiotic, oh and you get to go SKIING!! But winter kind of ends up being never ending and summer ends in a blink of an eye.
• I absolutely, positively love to travel! It's so exhilarating! I've been to 9 different countries and plan on going to a million more. That's right. A million

          Happy Friday Lovecats!