Some of our Adventures and Hopes for the Future Ones

Don and I love to travel and have been fortunate enough to go many places.  Don’s job used to have him traveling every week and home weekends and vacations.  Luckily, he’s home every night now but those years of business travel gave us looks into other parts of North America and Europe.

Places we've gone together include Paris, London, Victoria BC, Birmingham, Atlanta, New York, Florida, St. Croix, and Texas to name a few.  Don has also been to Calgary BC, Nova Scotia, Ghana, and Amsterdam.

 Don in Ghana at the Monkey Sanctuary

Silliness with friends in New York

Paris Cafe across from the Louvre 

Going on any adventure brings excitement and learning whether it’s to see the city, go to the beach, museums or special places like the Grand Canyon.  Going out to explore can be as simple as going to a new part of your neighborhood on a walk or driving to the coast and visiting a new town for the day or going for a hike in the mountains. We’re pretty lucky where we live to be able to do all those things.  We also aren't far from the city to visit museums, the zoo or Pike Place Market.  I really look forward to raising a child in such a rich, culturally diverse environment they can explore and experience firsthand. 

Arizona trip

Whistler trip

We also get excited at the prospect of a child joining our family and getting to take them to new places.  Places we visit frequently like California to visit family and friends to places none of us have been like Alaska, Nashville, Italy or Japan. I’d love being able to travel all around the US to Major ballparks, go to the games and explore the cities.  We've been to quite a few and one day I’ll take all my baseball shirts and make them into a quilt.  I already have the pattern and a box of shirts started for that.   I’d love to take our child’s shirts and do the same for them once they get to college.  I think it’d be fun for them to see all the places in one quilt and be able to trigger those memories (at least I hope).

Until then we’ll continue to travel as much as we are able to and as often as we can to visit the places we've never been (actually places we both haven’t been because we like to see them together).  So below I’ll list the states we've never been to and if you live there make a comment about the great places to see and things to do.

I've/we've never been to:

• Montana
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Nebraska
• Kansas
• Wyoming
• Mississippi
• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Iowa
• Arkansas
• Indiana
• New Hampshire
• Vermont
• Maine
• Missouri 
• Utah
• Alaska

Wow, I didn't think we’d been to so many states but seems we've done pretty well, only 18 more to go. Although he’s never been to Wisconsin and in turn I've never been to Colorado (airports don’t count). I’ll leave you with a link to see some of our travel adventures on Pinterest as well as those shown here.