All my life travel has been a passion on mine but only in the past few years have I been so lucky to do a lot of it. I had seen the east coast as a young teenager, but that’s about the extent of it. With raising my children and taking care of my Mother it wasn’t in the cards, but I can hear my Moms words echoing in my ears, she would say if you want something badly enough you will get it.

  Well a few years ago after the death of my Mom I moved south to be close to my brother. My children are all grown and I really felt the need to move there. He gave me a job and a place to stay and for the first time in my life the money I made became mine, not every ones. I decided to open a savings account and for me it was called my trip money.

  Now in my years past I have been to Canada our neighboring country and saw a lot of that. To me it is a lot like the east, same trees, same landscape. Then I went to St. Lucia in the West Indies. That place amazed me from its beauty of the island in the middle of the sea. The people were so poor, but so happy from their 12 hour work days to cater to tourists and people like me. They still wash clothes in the river on Sundays. Crazy! I had also been to Porto Rico, a beautiful huge Island. I would love to go back one day and stay longer.

  I made a friend from work and she was also single and we decided to go see Las Vegas. I had always wanted to go there not for the gambling as much as it was for seeing the city and the casinos. So off we went.

  Las Vegas is a beautiful place if you have never seen the west, which I had not until then. We arrived in the late night so the city was full of lights and beautiful. We found our hotel and off to bed we went. When I awoke the next morning I opened the window shades and was in a state of shock! It wasn’t the city that amazed me, but the Sierra Mountains that surrounded the city. Our East coast Mountains are high but smooth, these were high and very pointed, no trees just beauty! We toured the city for a few days and the casinos are incredible. Each and every one of them have something to offer. One can go to Vegas and actually spend very little money on shows cause the casinos all have free shows. The end of the week came quickly but I wanted to see Hover Dam, so we booked a bus trip to the dam. It was a day long trip and off through those mountains we went. Once we arrived at the dam I was once more overwhelmed bu its beauty. It is huge! We went to the middle of the dam and just stood there. Tears started to stream down my face, I was just so stunned by what I was seeing. How amazed I was at it all.