I am an Education Volunteer at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. Before this, I taught in Long Beach high schools for 32 years. Now my husband and I are both retired and are spending as much time as we can traveling to witness the variety of countries and cultures on this planet. In the last ten years we have visited many diverse places: Egypt, China, the Baltic countries, Russia, Argentina, Antarctica, Mexico. This is the first time I have ever thought about blogging. Usually everything gets recorded in a trip diary, and good luck if I can find it again when we are sortin... full info