One of my big time loves is traveling.  Not that I like the airplane thing so much, its just the getting out and seeing how the rest of the world lives.  I gathered a few of my travel pictures in no particular order.  If you get bored, just go to the next page.  You know these people with their albums . . . .just can't get rid of them:

(1) Worlds Fair in Canada  (2)  Southern most tip of USA in Hawaii.  Not a palm tree in site and you need to go through a cemetery to get there.  To go fishing one needs to go down the cliff by rails to get the boats that are resting in the serf and then pull the boat in by a pulley  (3)  Fishing in Alaska, my Middle Son spent a year doing this.  But for the will of God and my many prayers did I make it.  God was on his side also.  Several years later my Sis' Son was on a boat that went down and he was one of a very few crew that made it out alive.

(1)Arizona and the beautiful blooming cactus  (2) the Real London Bridge in Lake Havasu that had been taken apart in London and brought to Arizona.

(1)  Nogales, Mexico ..I bought rugs and continued on to NM  (2)  My first balloon ride with champagne when landing, in Albuquerque  (3) then on to the Pueblos of Acoma.  The women own the land and pass it down to their daughters, its the Acoma Indian tradition.  Their pottery and art work is just wonderful.

We brought back 57 rolls of film from this trip and you will only get to see just a few.  A trip to the Mediterranean, nearly 4 weeks and 7 countries . . . a trip of a lifetime for me!!!   

(1) Madrid, Spain by Costelanlia Hotel.  Boutiques on the ground floor and apartments above.  (2) Portugal, Vasco de Gamma Hotel - fishing boats are hauled in and out by tractor, no buoys, no moorage.  Monte Gordo.

(1)  Leaving Algersaris, Spain on a Russian Hydrofoil to Tangier, N. Africa, past the Rock of Gibraltar  (2)  The Kasbah in Tangier, North Africa.  I didn't get a rug but did buy a leather purse cured in camel pee, no noticeable odor until we returned to the enclosed hydrofoil.  (3)  Costa del Sol, the famous topless beaches of the Mediterranean, then returned to Madrid with the camel pee cured purses (stinky, stinky) hanging out the car windows trying to air out on our way to a bull fight.

(1)next stop was Jerusalem, Mt of Olives, Hotel Jaffa Gate - the pic is of going to the "old" market.  (2)pic is of a street in  Nazareth, we also visited the Masada, Dead Sea, Dome of the Rock and Jericho (3) and the Wailing Wall - I put my little prayer on a piece of paper and stuck it in a crack.

(1) Finally got to the ship for a 2 week cruise and mucho mucho food.  (2)  Patmos, Greece - the smallest island of the chain, white, sun, tiles, beauty.  If you want to see the other places in Greece, come see me for a visit.

(1)Coluseum in Turkey not far from the Seaport (and I can't remember the name, figure that!)  (2)  Alexandria Egypt.  I would love to return and study the culture.  Such a contradiction of life styles, such friendly people.  (3)Luxor with the pyramids, camels, and fast taxis.  What a Blast!  THEN WE HAD TO COME HOME . . . racing across the tarmac to catch a plane that was sorely overbooked with people that were half as tall as we were, then sitting at the Paris airport waiting on the tarmac for 2 hours - before it was fashionable, and no! they would not let us off the plane.  It took us 32 straight hours from the time we left Egypt until we arrived back to SeaTac.  Glad to get back home.

    Part of my family and trip to Hawaii, 2001 - where I first found gourds.