They went together to Bangkok, Laos and Cambodia.  The older one went to Costa Rica to study Spanish and then all the way up the coast with her boyfriend through El Salvador to Guatemala and back to Costa Rica to spend a month there on the beach with their friends.

    She also went to Paris, Spain, Switzerland, Rome and London.   Then she had a baby, Petunia, and she was on nine planes her first year.   My other daughter has been to New York City the last two years and from Alaska to Wisconsin and hopefully she will be visiting me soon here before she goes back to Alaska.  

     My mother and father traveled all around the world and then took their airstream trailer to the four corners of the United States.   They visited me up in remote Alaska and made their way to Barrow for the final corner of their trip.  We lived in Seattle, Hawaii and Guam and took frequent trips to Hong Kong and the Philipines.   We went to Toyko a few times and took the bullet train out to see the big Buddha.  My Dad loved Buddhism. 

      Petunia is on her way to Portland now.   She had fun in their house in Alaska but now will be in a comfy old house in downtown Portland with their friends.   My daughters' friends travel as much as they do. They are not wealthy but they have a courage and curiosity that is inherent in the young. 

    I long for a trip.  I think I have one in mind.  And it won't be on a bus trip with my mom.  That is her mode of travel nowdays.   At 93 she has seen it all.  She and I take trips together as much as we can.  Not easy at 93 tho.  My mom came a long way from her humble Indiana upbringing.  She married my Dad who had spent eight years in Brazil building roads after college to bypass the depression.  They loved to travel.   My daughters have the bug now.  They want more.