Today's topic: Someplace I'd like to visit someday.
It's only wishful thinking now. Age and health prevent me from taking such a trip, but here goes.
The dream trip I couldn't afford was offered by a teacher at my school who was coordinating it, when I had a family of four, a dog and mortgage.
An EF package offered that was a flight from New York to Rome, then to Naples where you went on a cruise through the Greek Islands and then left for home from Athens. Two weeks total $10,000 for two, plus flight to New York and back from New York.
I did get to visit the state where I was born, on a Marine Corps base and left still an infant.
I sponsored four students from New Mexico the YMCA's Council On National Affairs in Asheville, NC.
We flew to Dallas, met up with the delegations from Texas and Oklahoma then boarded a bus and drove nonstop from there to Asheville, same on the trip back. Two sixteen-hour drives with 50 high school students was a true adventure.
9 comments:
I’m glad you gave those students those memories.
Rome, Naples and Athens all sound amazing.
They gave me plenty too, Lydia.
It would have been, but alas life gets in the way.
Yes, I can imagine it would be! Glad you and, apparently, all of the students survived!
Thank you for sharing these memories. My middle son went on the Washington DC trip his school did is 7th grade year (2016/2017) and I am so glad he was able to go, he made so many memories and made new friends on that trip.
Priscilla, yes we did.
Kel, an adventure for a lifetime.
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