Oh, The Places I’ve Been!

“You’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So… get on your way!”
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)

I saw this post over at Family and Life in Las Vegas and From Chalkboards to Strollers and I thought I’d join in the fun!  You can learn a bit about who people are by looking at where they’ve been, for instance I had no idea that Liz (From Chalkboards to Strollers) swam competitively through high school or that Emily was on a diving team!  I love to swim so I think that’s pretty cool.

So you want to see where I’ve been?

I’ve visited some other cool places so I found a map of Europe too.

I need to do some traveling around the eastern part of our country, and I need to do lots of traveling around Europe.  ; )

So, what have been my favorite places???

1) England!  I absolutely LOVE England and the 4 months I spent there in college.  While I was there I enjoyed the sunniest autumn England had experienced in 300 years so I didn’t have to experience “dreary, rainy England” or London fog.   It remains the most beautiful place I have ever visited, and I am absolutely entranced by its history.   I went when I was 20, took a leap, crossed the Atlantic to go to a place I had never been before and where I knew absolutely no one.  I came home with some amazing new friends and an enriched outlook on life.

2) Hawaii  Similar situation as above.  I went to Brigham Young University Hawaii for my first 2 years of college beginning when I was 17.  I knew no one when I went, but I made wonderful, life-long friends.  I had the chance to work at the Polynesian Cultural Center.  I learned about cultures I’d never before heard of, and was greeted each day by the smell of the clean ocean and the by the beauty of the island of Oahu.