Vacationing with Kathy

Good Monday afternoon. Have a wonderful Monday

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TIP TUESDAY🌴🌴🌴 Take more photos of yourself! Photos of the places you visit are great but when you get home, they're not that different from the ones everyone else has taken there, too. Photos with you in them are special and they'll mean alot more to you when you look back at them.

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE 🌴🌴🌴 The oldest bar in the world The oldest bar in the world is in Ireland. Archeological records have found that the walls of Sean's bar have been around, and serving since 900 AD. There are records of every owner of the pub back to it's 10th century founding. It opened over 1100 years ago.

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TUESDAY🌴🌴🌴 Since Halloween is coming up soon. World's 10 Best Halloween locations. 🎃 1. Ireland- With the breathtaking scenery and the centuries old castles that holds lots of fascinating and spooky secrets. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana- Halloween is the second most celebrated holiday after Mardi Gras. It's an ideal destination for the season because of the history of voodoo, countless haunted spots, and it's infamous party scene. 3. London- It is known to be one of the world's most haunted cities. There is endless number of places where ghosts are known to roam. 4. Williamsburg, Virginia- It is renowned for it's legends and haunted history. 5. Salem, Massachusetts- Known as the Witch capital of the United States. Halloween is a month long event including a parade, ghostly tales, lots of witches, vampires and more. 6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania- Is known to be the most terrifying and allegedly most haunted places in the world. The City hosts the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, where visitors can take a night tour, referred as Terror Behind the Walls. 7. Scotland- Scotland is filled with haunted castles and other haunted spots. One being the Edinburgh Vaults which has become a bizarre tourist attraction. Some have reported seeing the evil ghost of a faceless man during the tour. 8. Italy- It is beautiful in the fall and is also the home to a number of creepy catacombs. 9. Tombstone, Arizona- Its a fun place with different halloween activities. 10. Savannah, Georgia- Many of the stately old homes in the historic district are reportedly haunted. Also you can take a Hearse Ghost Tour where you ride around the city in a hearse while seeing the paranormal hotspots

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TIP TUESDAY 🌴🌴🌴 Take a photo of your luggage. If it gets lost, it will make it easier to identify. Especially if you didn't use a luggage tag, or the tag becomes unreadable.

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE 🌴🌴🌴 The Trevi Fountains in Rome is an 18th century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, So many tourists throw coins into the fountain that it adds up to as much as $1.5 million per year. Workers collect the coins each night and the money gets donated to charity.

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE🌴🌴🌴 Great Train Graveyard, Uyuni, Bolivia IT’S A CEMETERY FOR TRAINS, for locomotives. And it’s so big that it looks as though all of the trains in South America were moved to Uyuni, Bolivia, to chug their last chug. It’s only about 3 km away from the Uyuni train station. Filled with hollowed out bodies that have completely rusted over and other remains, the “Great Train Graveyard” can be found on the otherwise deserted outskirts of Uyuni, a small trading region high in the Andean plain.

🌴🌴🌴THURSDAY'S TOP 10🌴🌴🌴 Top 10 things to do in London with kids 1. Buckingham Palace and changing of the guard 2. British Museum 3. The London Eye 4. Hyde Park and Princess Diana memorial playground 5. Take a boat ride 6. Tower of London 7. Tower Bridge 8. Big Ben 9. Harrod's Food Halls 10. Eat at a British Pub

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE🌴🌴🌴 or should I say weird places to see The Bubblegum wall in Seattle, Washington. The Seattle gum wall has been gathering gum since 1993 when people waiting for shows at the Old Market theater would stick gum to the wall and stick coins to the gum to pass the time. The gum is stuck to the walls along an alley for more than 50 feet. It's been cleaned once (in 2015)--2,350 pounds of gum were removed. It's not America's only gum wall. Bubble gum alley in San Luis Obispo, California is the other gum wall. There is also a smaller one on a Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe in Greenville, Ohio. That won't be going on my list of places to see anytime soon.

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TUESDAY🌴🌴🌴 New Zealand Bucket List 1. See Views of Mt. Cook/Aoraki 2. Try extreme sports in Queenstown 3. Cruise or kayak Milford Sound 4. Hike the Tongariro Alpine Crossing 5. Climb the Franz Josef Glacier 6. Soak in the Onsen Hot Pools in Queenstown 7. Photograph thatwanakatree 8. Watch the sunrise from Roy's Peak 9. Visit your Hobbit friends at Hobbiton 10. See geothermal activity in Rotorua 11. See the glow worms at Waitomo Caves 12. Did your own hot pool at the Hot Water Sand Beach 13. Go on one of New Zealand's Great Walks 14. See a kiwi in the wild

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TIP TUESDAY🌴🌴🌴 Make a local food from one of your favorite destinations and pretend you are there

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE🌴🌴🌴 MUIR WOODS, SAN FRANCISCO This magical park is named after and dedicated to, renowned conservationist and father of national parks, John Muir. Here you can walk along ancient redwoods and choose between several hiking trails that wind under the tree canopies.

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE🌴🌴🌴 DOME HOME, MARCO ISLAND, FLORIDA The history of the Dome Home located just South of Marco Island in Florida dates back to the 80's. Bob Lee, a retired oil producer, built the structure as a vacation home for his family. Construction began in 1980 and was completed in 1982. The property was sold 2 years later. The Lee Family took possession of the home again in 1987 when it became their permanent residence. The family lived in the house until 1992, the year Hurricane Andrew delivered a devastating blow to South Florida. The homes exterior structure survived the storm, the interior was destroyed. No one has lived there since. The house was sold to a Naples man who had plans to move the structure to higher ground. Damage from Hurricane Wilma, as well as permitting issues, put a stop to those plans. The storms had eroded the land beneath the domes and over time, the stretch of beach where they stood would cease to exist.

🌴🌴🌴THURSDAY'S TOP 10🌴🌴🌴 Top 10 things to see in Madrid, Spain 1. Royal Palace of Madrid 2. Almudena Cathedral 3. Plaza Mayor 4. Sobrino de Botin 5. Cybele Palace 6. Puerta de Alcala 7. Parish Church of Santa Teresa y San Jose 8. Temple of Debod 9. Gran Via 10. Patrick Blanc's Vertical Garden

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE 🌴🌴🌴 HOLE N THE ROCK, MOAB, UTAH Is a deep cave that is a deep cave that is 16, 361 square ft. carved into a huge red rock. Almost a century ago, the Christensen family settled in this cave and adapted the cavities in the rock to real habitable rooms. Over a period of 20 years, the Christensen family transformed what was supposed to be just a simple refuge for their children first into a diner for the workers of the area, then in a ballroom and finally into a house with 14 rooms. All furnished with fireplace and a large bathtub carved into the rock. Also an infinite number of paintings, sculptures, trinkets and household items. The couple is buried near the house in a nearby cave.

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TUESDAY🌴🌴🌴 ULTIMATE USA BUCKET LIST 1. Antelope Canyon 2. Death Valley 3. Golden Gate Bridge 4. Surfing in Hawaii 5. Graceland, Tennessee 6. Niagara Falls 7. Florida Keyes 8. Freedom Trail, Boston 9. Glacier National Park 10. Beale Street, Memphis 11. Northern Lights, Alaska 12. Liberty Bell, Philadelphia 13. Baseball game at Fenway 14. The White House 15. Burning Man Festival 16. Drive Route 66 17. Visit Disneyworld 18. Drive Highway 1, California 19. Yellowstone Park, Wyoming 20. Sail on Lake Michigan 21. Savannah's Historic District 22. Smithsonian Museums, DC 23. Tracy Arm Fjord 24. Nashville, Tennessee 25. Arches National Park 26. Skiing in Colorado 27 Wine Tasting in Napa Valley 28. The Everglades, Florida 29. Mount Rushmore 30. Mardi Gras, New Orleans 31. Grand Canyon 32. Millenium Park, Chicago 33. Statue of Liberty 34. Las Vegas 35. Salem, Massachusetts 36. Wizarding World of Harry Potter 37. White Sands National Monument 38. Eat Lobster Rolls in Maine 39. Pike Place Market, Seattle 40. Visit Disneyland 41. Joshua Tree National Park 42. Crystal Bridges Museum of Art 43. Yellowstone National Park 44. Portland Ave Festival 45. Lake Tahoe 46. New England in the Fall How many places listed have you been? How many would you love to see? We've seen 11. I want to see 27, there's some that I want to see again.

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TIP TUESDAY🌴🌴🌴 Bring a large lightweight wrap. You'll find so many uses! Wrap your shoulders on the plane, wrap your waste at the pool, or sit on at the beach.

🌴🌴🌴SATURDAY QUESTION🌴🌴🌴 It's National Apple Dumpling Day Do you like Apple Dumplings? I've never tried them

🌴🌴🌴 A NEAT PLACES TO SEE 🌴🌴🌴 A Christmas Story House, now restored to its movie splendor, is open year round to the public for tours. Directly across the street from the house is the official A Christmas Story House Museum, which features original props, costumes and memorabilia from the film, as well as hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes photos. Among the props and costumes are the toys from the Higbee's window, Randy's snowsuit, the chalkboard from Miss Shields' classroom and the family car. This would be neat to see

🌴🌴🌴FUN FACT FRIDAY🌴🌴🌴 as Did you know: You use rocks and minerals at home?🪨🪨 Rocks are found in some of the things we use at home.🪨🪨 Such as soap, toothpaste, makeup and batteries.🧼💄🔋

It's Collect Rocks Day

It's Collect Rocks Did you collect Rocks when you were a kid? I used too

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE🌴🌴🌴 The Maunsell Sea Forts, England The Maunsell Army and Navy forts were built and placed in the Thames Estuary in 1942 to help protect London from airstrikes and sea raids during World War II. After the war, the forts became the headquarters for pirate radio stations. Today, the forts are abandoned and dilapidated, but you can visit them by boat. I think they would be neat to see. What do you think?

🌴🌴🌴TOP 10 BUCKET LIST DESTINATIONS🌴🌴🌴 1. Italy 2. Machu Picchu 3. The Himalayas 4. African Safari 5. The South Island of New Zealand 6. Kyoto, Japan 7. Bhutan 8. Siem Reap, Cambodia 9. Egypt 10. The Great American Road trip Have you been to any of the destinations listed? If so, thoughts? There is some on the list that are on my bucket list. Italy, African Safari, The South Island of New Zealand and The Great American Road Trip, specifically Route 66 but would love to visit all the states in the U.S. also

🌴🌴🌴GET TO KNOW YOU🌴🌴🌴 It's National Cream Filled Donut Day! What is your favorite cream filled donut? Mine is Boston Cream Donuts

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE 🌴🌴🌴 The Thing, Arizona Thomas Binkley Prince brought The Thing from California to Arizona in 1965, setting up shop on a patch of sagebrush off an I-10 exit ramp about an hour east of Tucson. He charged 25 cents a peek. Within a couple of years, he'd built an outdoor shed museum around The Thing, raised his price to 50 cents, and displayed relics such as a piece of a woolly mammoth's front leg, a 1937 Rolls-Royce transporting a dummy Hitler, and, in the last shed, The Thing itself.

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TUESDAY🌴🌴🌴 Let's travel to New Orleans. PLACES TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS IN NEW ORLEANS 1. The street cars 2. Auction house bathroom 3. Carousel Bar 4. Superdome 5. Cafe Beignet 7. With Love from NOLA 8. Greetings from NOLA 9. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 10. New Orleans Museum of Art 11. NOLA 300 signs 12. Jack Rose 13. Love win locks 14. French Quarter Balconies 15. Hollygrove mural with Lil Wayne 16. Postcard from Bangkok 17. Hola Ya'll 18. Everything in NOLA is a good idea 19. The Magnolia Tree inside the Rampart

🌴🌴🌴TRAVEL TIP TUESDAY🌴🌴🌴 When packing, use extra large zipper storage bags for your shoes and swim suits. 🧳👞👙 This will keep the rest of your clothes clean and dry. 🧳👚

With it being Teddy Bear Day What was your favorite teddy bear growing up? Mine was a black pound puppy

🌴🌴🌴THURSDAY'S TOP 10🌴🌴🌴 TOP 10 CHEAPEST COUNTRIES TO VISIT: 1. Indonesia 2. Mexico 3. India 4. Colombia 5. Cuba 6. Bulgaria 7. South Africa 8. Turkey 9. Thailand 10. Greece Have you been to any of these countries? What are great places to see? I haven't been to any but a few are on my bucket list

🌴🌴🌴NEAT PLACES TO SEE🌴🌴🌴 CADILLAC RANCH, AMARILLO, TEXAS Cadillac Ranch was created in an old cow pasture by an art group from San Francisco known as the Ant Farm artists, made up of Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels. But they had help from millionaire Stanley Marsh 3, an eccentric millionaire and Texas businessman who reveled in rattling the Amarillo population. I've always wanted to visit this. Have you been? What did you think of it?