It's amazing what you remember on accident, some times. Take for instance, yesterday afternoon. I was cleaning out the boxes we'd placed all of our desk belongings into in the great office shuffle of 2010 and early 2011. We are collectors in more ways than one, the both of us, so that makes our stash of random things rather interesting.
In a set of nondescript folders were about a million and one little receipts, brochures, and paper itineraries form about half of the trips we've ever taken together. When you spend as much time as I do planning journeys, I guess the proof - or at least the work that went into it all - seemed valuable enough to keep at the time. I decided to keep only those guide magazines from places we have dreamed of visiting again, and pitched the rest. At this point in the game, I think I've proved my resourcefulness to the extent that an old car rental confirmation print-out isn't really something I'll need one day.
But all of that rifling got me thinking.
We've been a lot of places, together.
And if there's one thing we've kept going since well before our days of sharing a last name, it's our love of travel. It's our love of taking in pieces of a place we've never been, or rediscovering the things that are so wonderful about places we've been before.
I thought it might be fun to lay it all out here. Disclaimer: there are a few trips in between these which involve visiting family (in VA, MD, NC, NY and even here in TN) and are not cited - and a few of these actually include those, particularly where we made efforts to sightsee in our own hometowns for the sake of the other.
 |
| East TN (Cleveland & Gatlinburg), 2004 (Met his family!!) |
 |
| Maryland (D.C. & Baltimore), 2004 (Met my family!!) |
 |
| Virginia (Norfolk & VA Beach), 2004 (Met my family!!) |
 |
| California (LA area), 2005 |
 |
| Knoxville, 2005 |
 |
| Annapolis Rocks, 2005 |
 |
| Chestnut Mountain, 2006 |
Arkansas & Texas, 2006 - no photographic evidence
 |
| Big Frog Mountain, 2006 |
 |
| Memphis, 2006 |
 |
| Kansas City, 2006 |
 |
| Utah (Park City), 2006 |
 |
| Big Frog Mountain, 2007 (Proposal!!) |
 |
| St. Lucia, 2007 (Honeymoon!!) |
 |
| New York (Long Island), 2007 |
 |
| Florida (Grayton Beach & Panama City Beach), 2008 |
 |
| Memphis, 2008 |
 |
| Tampa, 2008 |
 |
| Grand Cayman, 2008 |
 |
| Mexico, 2008 |
 |
| Belize, 2008 |
 |
| Honduras, 2008 |
 |
| Wyoming, 2008 |
 |
| Chattanooga, 2009 |
 |
| California (San Diego area), 2009 |
 |
| Washington (ALL OVER), 2009 |
 |
| Massachusetts, 2009 |
 |
| Oregon (how abstract! Portland & Hood River), 2009 |
 |
| Colorado, 2010 |
 |
| Germany, 2010 |
 |
| Arizona (GRAND CANYON), 2010 |
Gosh, that's incredible. I mean, I know it because we did it - but sometimes I forget. And I'm sure there's something in there I'm forgetting, as it is. But I love seeing even seeing just this and knowing that there's a lifetime of journeys ahead for us!
1 comment:
8 trips in 2008! Wow! That's a LOT of travel in a year! So happy you guys get to explore this wonderful world we live in... When are you coming to Italy? =)
Post a Comment