Mary and Susan - Travelers, Adventurers, Renegades!
Our parents introduced us to travel as children and our thirst for seeing new sites, following our curiosity and learning about different places was born!
I lived in Paris as an “au pair” one year during my college years and my sister visited several times. We covered a lot of ground during those trips - a visit to Switzerland and the town our ancestors came from - Einsiedeln, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy, This only whet our appetite for adventure and desire not just to see new countries but to dive in, live like a local, experience the culture, dine on new dishes, talk to people and learn as much as possible about the place!
Over the years we are grateful to have had many more travel and exploration opportunities - visiting Spain, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, England and, closer to home - California, Colorado, Alaska, Massachusetts and more. We have found that different states also offer different cultural experiences which has been profoundly rewarding - even when we don’t much like it!
As retirees, we want to take this time to continue our journey and explore and experience more of the world. We think of ourselves as renegades (we are “homeless” - the road, airbnb’s, Vrbo’s, and hotels are our homes), and adventurers!
Travel Inspiration
Mary Ritter Beard (American Historian)
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights: it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
John Steinbeck (American Writer)
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
Danny Kaye (American Actor)
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Rudyard Kipling (English Writer)
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Note from Mary: I LOVE this quote! When we arrive by plane or train in a new country, the first things I do are to smell the air AND listen to the ambient sounds. My favorite is the clinking sound small spoons make when stirring coffee in real cups as travelers stand around the espresso bar! Sheer joy!
Anais Nin (American Writer)
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Daniel J. Boorstin (American Historian)
The traveler was active. He went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing. .
Note from Mary & Susan - THIS is our motto - search out the adventure! Not just sight-seeing.