A little about this blogger

I planned my first trip overseas in 1983 at age 15, after finding a youth organization that provided service-oriented trips around the world. I joined a group in Austria where we helped to build a youth center for runaway teens. Travel, not providing aid, was for sure my main agenda initially, but I quickly learned the importance of giving back and met incredibly interesting people along the way.

I was hooked after that first trip, the world seemed more colorful, more alive, than anything I had experienced to date. Everything was completely different from what I knew, including funnily enough, the toilet paper! I even brought a scrap of it back to remember the color (mauve) and texture (very rough.) After returning home, I immediately wanted to plan another trip. I needed, seriously yearned, for another chance to visit another destination and experience a different culture. The travel bug bit me hard and never let go.

In my 20s, I met a young man who asked me to dinner at a restaurant. A restaurant which required a flight to get there. I knew I had found my soul mate after that first date. Jamie and I have been seeing the world together ever since, dragging our now adult sons with us since they were in diapers. Travel never EVER gets old to me. Nor, for that matter, does Jamie.

Little Travelers Notebook began with the idea of a dog-eared notebook keeping record of our family travels both near and far: places visited, favorite experiences, good restaurants, lovely hotels and villa rentals, etc, etc. An easy reference to send to friends with destination requests as well as sort of a diary for myself.

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A little about this blogger

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