I've Been There!!!

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I love to travel. Its what motivates me to go to work every day and now my daughters are as travel-addicted as I am. I decided to make a list of the places I've been...you know, like the Dr. Seuss book...and here's the places I've been.....(with just a few photos):

Grand Canyon
Old Faithful & Yellowstone
The Grand Tetons & Jenny Lake
Whitewater Rafting down the Snake River
The Antler Arch in Jackson Hole
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming

Mount Rushmore

Steamboating down the Mississippi River

The Continental Divide

Little Bighorn Battle Site

The Space Needle

The Golden Gate Bridge

Anzo Borrego State Park, Wildflowers, Palm Canyon Oasis Trail

Sequoia National Park – General Sherman Tree

Yosemite National Park (Half Dome – pending)

The Empire State Building

Statue of Liberty

Gettysburg Battlefield and Town

Battle of Yorkshire Site

Colonial Williamsburg

Monticello

Boston, The Freedom Trail; Paul Revere’s Home; The Old North Church; sailing ship, TheConstitution, etc.

Joseph Smith’s Birthplace in Vermont

Navuoo

Four Corners (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico & Arizona all at once)

Mesa Verde Ancient Indian Cliff Dwellings

Mountain Steam Train to Silverado, Colorado

Heaber Creeper Steam Train, Utah

Antelope Island

Promentory Point (Site of the meeting of the rails in 1869)

Timpanogos Cave

Zion National Park, The Narrow and the top of Angels Landing

Rainbow Arch

Lake Powell

The Eiffle Tower

Arch Di Triumph

Boat Cruise down the Seine

The Mona Lisa

Versailles

The Collessium

The Circus Maximus

The Trevi Fountain

The Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica

The old part of Rome?

Statue of David

Venus Emerging

Climbed up to the top of Brunellici’s Duomo in Florence

The Ponte Veccio

Venice

Big Ben

Tower of London

Buckingham Palace

Picadilly Circus

Trafalgar Square

Cruise down the Thames

Prague

Catalina Island

Comments

  1. HeidiMay 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM

    SWEET! And becasue your my MOM I have been to half those places too...

    Lots of fun childhood memories, travel the US (and you didnt even mention MOST of the California Mission's we have visited)...

    And I will always remember our Paris, London, & Prague trips...GREAT MEMORIES to my perfect travel partner...

    You didnt mention skiing in VERMONT and the JS Home as well.

    This will all be nice to have for your records though.

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  2. aprilalemanMay 25, 2009 at 5:44 PM

    You make me look bad... but your blog looks so good now!!!

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  3. aprilalemanMay 25, 2009 at 9:58 PM

    You also forgot Prague, your trip to Hawaii w/ grandma, our Mexican cruise to Ensenada, your trips to Catalina, and you should include some of the other states you have been to, including S. Dakota with Mt. Rushmore.

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