My friend, Marsha, and I went to Barcelona, Spain in 2007. It was wonderful. This park was great. Gaudi's work was ever present all over Barcelona.

Riley Mae Walker

My Sweet Riley Mae. She is such an angel~

My little Bailey Lyn

My Little Bailey Lyn. Sweet Angel!!

Bailey's Recital

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Butch having his head shaved to help raise money for cancer research for kids. Jack's Backyard in Dallas was the scene this Sunday of many people getting their heads shaved to help raise money.

Wisdom From Friends

My friend from Santa Fe has this quote on his blog and I really like it.... "Unless compassion is translated into action, it is powerless."

Just GO..Summer in Moscow and at the Hermitage

Jewels in Paris

Two days and we will be in Jamaica.

Whoo Hooo!!

I was standing on the Carnival ship, Fantasy, when I took this pic at sunset. Breathtakingly, drop-dead gorgeous views. My whole family was there.

One of my favorite places in Paris, Notre Dame. This is the first place I always head to when I arrive in Paris. There is just something so peaceful about this place. I walk in and everything is just the same as I left it last time. The history is amazing. I find a seat in the back and just sit for a spell, watching all the people coming and going. Most of the people are tourists from all over the world. Outside near the small bushes there is this man who is always there, it seems, he stands and all these very small birds flock to him, landing on his arm, hand, shoulder, etc. He feeds them and they are familiar with him because they will not go near anyone else. I have been there many times and watched him with his bird friends.

Barcelona, Spain

Mark Twain says......

"Twenty years from now you 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." Mmmmmm I think that quote is delicious!

Venice, Italy

I took this pic in Venice in Nov 06.
Venice is beautiful. I loved it!

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The Travel Channel

Don't you just love Samantha Brown's European travels! What about that guy who eats anything and everything as he travels over the world?! Oh, and there is that good looking Anthony Bourdain who travels with "No Reservation". And he says he is "always hungry for more." And, of course, there is the wonderful Rick Steves, whose books I bought way back when traveling was cheaper and there was no euro and the franc in Paris was still very much affordable. Yep, I am addicted to the travel channel.

I love the way I travel, frugal, frugal, frugal....that's me. I GO to see, do and experience the way others live.

I started my adventures back in 1986 with KVIL. Remember Ron Chapman on KVIL...the first of January he would start offering great travel deals with the Sharon Carr travel agency in Dallas. One day my husband told me he heard about a deal to London for a week for around $500.00 (included air, lodging, transfers, tips, and a few meals!) He knew my dream was to see London. He was all for me going as long as I did not drag him across the big "pond". Of course I went (paid a little more for the single supplement). I got my first passport and tickets in about a month and the last of Feb. I was in London. I was totally in love with this city. (I fall in love with every place I visit).

That was the first of many, many trips. I traveled with KVIL/Sharon Carr tours for many years and then it dawned upon me that I could easily do this myself and not be on a tour.

Because I am adventurous and openminded I have been to some wonderful places. My friends cannot understand why I travel alone. (I used to travel with friends.) I tell them that when I travel I become selfish....that is my time and I have earned the money to travel by working hard. I don't want to be a travel guide and worry about everyone in the group having fun. Don't want to be a babysitter.

With my trusty passport and one small suitcase I am always ready for an adventure.

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

...St. Augustine

Itchy Feet

This time each year I have a yearning to cross the big pond and have a European adventure. Well, that is not completely true. I have a yearning to travel to Europe anytime I can!! I call my disease "Itchy Feet".

I love Dr. Seuss and Peter Pan. "Oh the Places you Will Go" and Peter Pan's "second star to the right...straight on 'til morning."

I posted a pic of me in Barcelona, Spain at the famous Gaudi church of Sagrada Familia which was started in 1883. Gaudi died in 1926. The church was not completed and is still uncompleted. Work is still going on at the site to this very day. It is wonderful. (I still have to learn how to place pictures on this blog)

Travel like a sponge, not a rock.

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.

...Kurt Vonnegut

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the starts.

...Les Brown

Segrada Familia, Gaudi Church