I’ve been using my fast internet connection to work on a project I’ve been meaning to get to for years, consolidating my travel journals into one blog. I started with the ones that were at Blogger and one I had typed up as they were the quickest. It’s fascinating to see how I’ve matured (or not) over the years and how my travel style has evolved (or not) over the years, as well as to encounter the events that would shape the person I am today.
The following links go to the first post in the journals. Click on the links at the bottom of the post to navigate to the next one, or click on the journal tag to have them come up in reverse chronological order.
28 Days in Scotland: in which I discover pubs, whisky, beer, and hiking up mountains (June/July 1998)
San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Tijuana: my first tiny steps into Mexico (June/July 2007)
Halifax: the highlight of which was a brewery tour… (November 2007)
Savannah: in which I discover the joys of frolicking in the sea in early April (April 2008)
A huge project and thank you.
Rae, your Savannah journal brought back old memories of my childhood and young adult years. When I was about ten years old (in the 1950s), my Mother purchased an old 1940s beach house (with a galvanized metal roof and no air conditioning) on Logan Street in the Fort Screven area of Tybee Island, Georgia. You had to pass that street on your way to the lighthouse you visited in Fort Screven. I have climbed that lighthouse many times as a child, even when I was directed not to do so. If you looked toward the ocean from the lighthouse, you would have noticed the old fort adjacent to the lighthouse. In the 1950s, that fort was abandoned; and as children, we played all over and around that fort. My friends and I even built camp fires on top of the fort, roasted wieners, and watched the ships at night come and go in the shipping lane. My family only moved to Fort Screven during the summer, and then it was back home for the winter for school for us and mom’s school-teaching duties. Over my young years, I have worked in many jobs on Savannah Beach, serving hamburgers and ice cream at the Sugar Shack, selling beach toys at Christie’s, and selling swim suits at T. S. Chu’s. And, of course, it was there that I found my first little teenage boyfriend!!
Dee