Jenn
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Jenn
I learned to love traveling as a kid, picking up my mom's sense of appreciating and learning about new things, and my dad's sense of adventure. We took little trips when I was young to different places around my home state of Michigan, and my first major trip out of state was at age 8 down to Missouri to visit family. A few years later I spent two weeks traveling to Niagara Falls, through New York State to Vermont and New Hampshire and a part of Maine. Then after my first year of college at the age of 18 my dad and I took a 3.5 week road trip driving from Michigan to Missouri, through Oklahoma to Texas, over to the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park, California, up to Utah, hitting major landmarks along the way and seeing family and friends when we could. It was definitely the trip of a lifetime and pretty much closed the door on any hope of staying put. I experienced something some people never get to by flying point to point - met people in vastly different cities and small towns, saw landscapes shifting and changing from dawn to dusk making our way from one state to another, waking up one morning with a giant tarantula on the wall in Arizona and floating in the Great Salt Lake the next. It gave me that spark, the travel bug, and since then I've been lucky enough to have seen a large part of this beautiful country.
There's always more to see - I haven't yet made it up to the great Pacific Northwest, the deep South awaits, and I'm expanding my travels to other countries now, hoping to experience many different corners of the world and immerse myself in their local cultures. I want to see with my own eyes the things I read about in my history books. The world is so fascinating to me, so big and diverse both in culture and landscape.
I'm planning a trip to Europe in the spring of '09 and I couldn't possibly be more excited! After that, I'm only limited a bit by time, money, and imagination. I have an entire list of places I'd love to see...but one step at a time!