lambsone
|
10 months ago •
Jan 4, 2024
10 months ago •
Jan 4, 2024
At some point this year, I will travel halfway to meet my Dom/Master in person. He will travel the other half to meet me. It will be in Ohio wherever it takes us to travel 2.5 hours each towards each other. I'm looking forward to meeting in person. We've done plenty of texting and talking on the phone the last 3 months, so it will be nice to be in each other's presence.
Other than that, I may travel to PA if an aunt on either side passes away. I know this isn't a typical vacation, but it gives me the chance to return to my roots and brings up all kinds of memories for me to reflect on and have new conversations with family members who are still living. There is something about those hills in Western and Southwestern PA that call to me. I can sense it as soon as I cross the Ohio border into PA. It's a great feeling.
Someday I would like to visit Scotland from my dad's side of the family. Maybe find some ancestral records pertaining to my family line. Depending on the DNA results from 2 different companies, I am also Irish. Our family has records of when we arrived in the States and shows that our family location was County Donegal in Ireland. So .... the larger part of me is German, Polish, and Slovak. There's even a tiny bit of Jewish mixed in. I have been to Germany but not the other countries.
I have been to several States in the US and fell in love with the Tetons in the early 70's. I thought I'd like to retire in Wyoming so I could view them everyday. I've also been in several countries in Europe. I've walked on the Great Wall of China, visited Mao Tse Tung's Mausoleum, seen the Terracota Warriors in Xian, had Dim Sum in Hongkong. I would have liked to travel to more places in the world but finances prohibited it.
I'd like to take a riverboat cruise on the Ohio River, and also see the Ark in Kentucky. These are probably more doable for me than world travel.
Well dream on .....
|