Story #36

Once upon a time there was a middle-aged couple who caught an ailment known as the travel bug. It all started one day when the newspaper-loving man read an ad offering a discount (and free Broadway tickets) for a "Cherry Blossoms Over Broadway" tour. A few short weeks later the adventurous couple were walking under cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. . . visiting all sorts of historic monuments, museums and homes . . . climbing in the Statue of Liberty and walking across the Brooklyn Bridge!

They had such a grand time, they soon signed up for another tour . . . and another. They flew on airplances to places like Boston, Seattle, Honolulu and Hong Kong! They traveled on buses through the Black Hills and badlands, over covered bridges, around the French Quarter in New Orleans, and through many national parks and forests. They rode in boats on Lake Winnipesaukee, under Deception Pass, and through the Thousand Islands. They cruised in big ships through the Caribbean, up to Alaska and all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. They rode in a horse-drawn carriage on Mackinac Island . . . in a taxi with a real Irish driver to Cork, Ireland . . . and in a red convertible called a "jammer" through Glacier National Park . . . and in a float plane over the Misty Fjords in Alaska!

 
They stood on volcanic rocks, walked through a lava tube, stood on a glacier, and walked on Waikiki Beach. They ate king crab legs in Alaska, an Amish dinner in a real Amish home in Pennsylvania, poutine (gravy and melted cheese on French Fries) at a Wendy's in Canada, blue crab cakes in Maryland, "pain au chocolate" in France, marionberry cobbler in Oregon and at a Waffle House in Virginia!They have seen Mount Rushmore, tulip fields galore, Anne of Green Gables' house on Prince Edward Island, lots of lighthouses, the Redwood forest, moose, dolphins, geese, alligators, fire dancers, lumberjacks, plantations, totem poles, temples and 32 states.

 
 Pretty soon the little Mrs. had a great desire to visit all 50 states while her husband wanted to take more and more cruises. It's beginning to look like the only cure for this couple's ailment will be spending all the money their children would probably like to inherit. But before that happens, perhaps they can all travel together on a cruise someday and be poor happily ever after.

Happy Wednesday!
Love,
a little traveler also known as your Grandma