Exploring the World at My Own Pace
Learning with every step: people and places.
About "Woman Travels Planet"
Note! There are more posts coming!
I am re-establishing my ongoing travel blog. Posts from "Two Lane Traveling" are dated on the day they were added to this blog. I can't seem to change this.
If you click on the years, e.g. 2017, you will be able to read posts by year, or by clicking on the country (or U.S. state,) read them by place visited. The date that I visited that place is also at the bottom of each post now.
I hope you enjoy Woman Travels Planet, please share it with others!
Why I Started "Woman Travels Planet"
Short answer: Because I want to continue traveling and writing. I am adding the posts from Two Lane Traveling because those were the years that I traveled in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.
This summer, the plan is to travel in Canada, travel with friends in Africa, and in the fall, travel in Europe and Asia. I hope that you will enjoy sharing my adventures as I again travel the planet, exploring the world at my own pace.
Here, on Woman Travels Planet, you can share the journey, exploring it with me at YOUR own pace!
Why Create a Blog?
I have changed addresses frequently in my life - different states, different cities, different houses. And I made friends - I could never write enough letters to keep up! A blog seemed like the perfect solution.
It turned out that I like to travel, I like to write about the places I go, and I like to take photos of the places, too. I love re-visiting these memories, and sharing my travels with friends, old and new.
My first blog was about moving to Upstate New York, one of the last changes during my career-life. When I began traveling for real, I started a second blog called "Two Lane Traveling." Three years later: PANDEMIC. A big gap grew between posts. Ultimately, that blog ceased to function due mainly to operator error. (Can't lie.)
The Idea: Full-Time Travel
It began when I was accepted to be an election observer through the OSCE. My assignment was to observe Ukraine's 2006 parliamentary election, and this, my first trip over the ocean, gave me an incurable case of wanderlust. What a wonderful world! I didn't want to come home.
Well, of course I had to come home, but I began thinking. I wanted to travel without a schedule imposed by work. I wanted to travel wherever I wanted, and to change my plans whenever I wanted. That would be at the end of work, so I had to plan for that. When the final career milestone arrived, my plan said I could either support my travel OR support my house. That was easy. When the moment came, I would sell my house and leave.
The Real World: It's Here
I reached that moment in 2017. Career work done, a steady income appeared each month in my bank account. My daughters were grown, settled into lives of their own. I confess I was a little nervous at first - the familiar invited me to stay - but I was helped by my granddaughters. One of my daughters, living in Bahrain with her family, now was expecting a second daughter, so I sold my house and stepped into my new life with the first adventure. It was off to Bahrain to care for the first granddaughter and welcome a second! And I feel thankful every day.
I hope you enjoy Woman Travels Planet.