“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

I suffer from travel-bug-itis. I hear it's incurable. *sigh* My side effects? Heavy daydreaming. Constant Google-ing. Unstoppable planning.

Oi.

I've been so blessed with the places I've been, experienced and seen. But I selfishly want more, and more. I want to meet different people, and experience other cultures, and most of all, travel the world with my favorite people and document life with my trusty 7D.

I know that you don't have to physically go to every destination to learn about cultures, and to experience life...but the explorer in me just can't help wanting that.

I want to see the wild animals in Kenya. I want to go back in time in Egypt. I want to stand where Jesus stood in Israel. I want to experience the old and the new in Europe (again). I want to climb the Great Wall. I want to learn to really dance in South America. I want to see the glaciers in Alaska. I want to see the rolling green hills and amazing castles in Ireland. I want to see NYC and Alcatraz and every mountain, valley, town and river in between. I want to swim in the turquoise blue waters of French Polynesia. And I'm just itching to photograph every little detail of Greece.

That's all doable right? RIGHT?

I want to see how other people live, and the beauty that God created all over. I mean, WA state alone is such a beautiful example of God's fingerprints...so imagine what else there is!

Eat. Pray. Love. is coming out this weekend...and I can't wait to see it. I just know my "disease" will only worsen after the movie, as I will immediately look into booking trips to Italy, India, and Indonesia. (Who's with me?)

Well, I'm concluding this with:

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain

and

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

and

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

oh...and:

Who wants to go on an adventure with me? I'm thinking Brazil at the moment. Maybe Norway? How about Prince Edward Island? Any takers...