I grew up with my father, an adventurer. My sister and I have seen most of the United States and many other countries by the time when we finished his university studies.
He saw travel as a major part of our education – we have written reports of written places that we visited, went in historical walking tours, and struck what every Museum of Kentucky felt to Cornwall.
My sister and I have no other brothers, and each of our parents was just children, which means that there are no aunts, uncles or cousins. Just four of us were growing up. My mother, as a hesitant traveler, sometimes crossed our flights.
When our parents passed, I was married, gave birth to two young children, and they worked part -time while the primary care provider was.
My sister and I have lived all over the country from each other – she was in California and I was in Connecticut. My sister, who does not have children, visited us several times a year.
She was late, at the age of forty and 41 years. In my individual years, my sister and I traveled together and faced a tiger in our travel in South Africa, and I went to Key West, and Pogoid in A Ramones Aft in Brixton.
Over the years, our time has turned together from Barcelona’s Bar Barcelona’s jump to transfer my children to a nearby stadium. We have never been able to end the sentence without interruption from a young child.
Sister’s time
On my 50th birthday, I was determined that we must go on another adventure together.
I persuaded my husband at the time to watch the children for a week during the spring vacation, while my sister and finally began on another adventure. I pressed that he will not have to worry about homework, fill lunch, or get them to and from school.
Despite the affordable trip to the Middle East I found, my sister took some channels – she was not keen to explore this part of the world.
The travel package, which was seized by eight countries on one flight, included: All seven UAE – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al -Qawi, Ras Al -Khamir, and Fujira – in addition to a stop in Amman. I paid $ 1,100 for Airfare and four nights in Dubai. Another stop, as well as a rented car, and seven nights of added hotels on about 1900 dollars.
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100 country goal
After checking all the 50 American states by my thirtieth birthday, I put my eyes on a new goal: visiting 100 countries.
I follow the standards set by Traveler’s Center Club, a group that I hope will join one day. The club recognizes 330 “countries and regions”, including all seven Emirates, as separate faces.
I appointed a driving road that added Oman, which helped me get another country.
Once you visit 100 countries, I will be eligible for progress.
The author’s sister was brought up near the tour boat in Amman.
Anastasia Halei mills
The blessing of travel is free from children
As a professional in traveling and penguins, two experiences of The Trip have emerged as the best: a tour of the unusual Burj Al Arab Hotel, with the golden and control Lamé background, and pure joy of having a small leap of the penguin through my lap.
The second experiment was in an internal ski area in Dubai, located in a mall. It was complete with the lifting of the resident ski and birds.
Other prominent points included visiting the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a picnic around the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, and the Burg Khalifa ride in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. This is where we had a quiet cocktail to celebrate half a century, overlooking the windows of the windows 122 floors below.
The author celebrated her birthday with a cocktail at the top of Bourj Khalifa in Dubai.
Anastasia Halei mills
Many of the trip was very complicated with my children. For example, the spa day was not possible with children. I also explored the Dubai Design area, which it markets in Souks, walked in the historic Al -Fuhaidi area, and I spent one day on a boat in Amman.
Throughout the trip, I knew that if it were a family trip, children would have complained of heat and food.
Freedom made this journey possible
Airlines say your oxygen mask is before helping others. I agree. Women give a lot, and we need – and we deserve – time to breathe and recharge. I took my children in the largest possible number of trips.
Now, I am 57 years old, divorced, and we – my children, my sister, and me – have just explored in my country 72. within a few years, when my children grow and transfer them, my sister and I will start with more distant adventures.
My plan is to accompany me to my hundred. Only logical – there was in all the central moments in my life.
