Make Your Grandkids Proud!

On Julia Dimon's blog, she describes herself as a "Travel Junkie."  She's been around the world several times, visited 80 countries (compared to my 40 - &#^&*$) and obviously loves to travel.  What started her obsession? 

"So what prompted this desire to gallivant across the globe? Strangely enough, it was an inspirational postcard I found at a dingy backpacker bar in Byron Bay, Australia. It read:

“Why tell your grandkids you worked 9-5, five days a week for 40 years and quietly sat in traffic jams while people went to war,      suffered disease and shot their own classmates? Tell them you refused to live in fear. Tell them you crossed the Amazon, saw the Lost Cities of Gold and met your soul mate in Casablanca. Travel to the ends of the earth. Go now and live adventures that will make your grandkids proud.”

Definitiely gets you to thinking, doesn't it?  Especially on a Monday morning.
 
http://www.traveljunkiejulia.com/

Finding Time for Travel and Photography

I know - you'll get to it later, or when you retire or sooner or later or ...  Finding time seems to be our bane - assuming you have enough resources for food, shelter and clothing of course.  But for most of us, its finding the time for ourselves and our passions seems problematic.  In glancing through the April issue of Sunset magazine - not exactly the publication where this kind of article normally appears - I came across Anne Lamont's feature on "Time Lost and Found."  Definitely worth a read. 

http://www.sunset.com/travel/anne-lamott-how-to-find-time-00418000067331/