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By education and experience - Accountant with a specialty in taxation. Formerly a CPA (license has lapsed). Masters degree in law of taxation from University of Denver. Now retired. Part time work during baseball season as receptionist & switchboard operator for the Colorado Rockies. This gig feeds my soul in ways I have trouble articulating. One daughter, and four grandchildren. I share the house with two cats; a big goof of a cat called Grinch (named as a joke for his easy going "whatever" disposition); and Lady, a shelter adoptee with a regal bearing and sweet little soprano voice. I would be very bereft if it ever becomes necessary to keep house without a cat.
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1000 Places
To See Before You Die - by Patricia Schultz
I guess this would be the ultimate travel guide, and it's admittedly skewed toward one traveler's choices. But I couldn't resist picking it up at the bookstore the other day.
And of course, the first thing I did was thumb through it, keeping a tab on the places she mentions and where I have already been.
73 out of her 1000. She has things organized by geographical locations, so it was easy to skip over Africa, South America, and much of Asia. I was kind of impressed that I've been to so many. And a couple of her choices surprised me - the Iowa State Fair? Admittedly, I was there on a day when the temperature topped out at 108, but I think there are other places which could deservedly nudge it out of the top 1000.
And I impressed myself with noting that three of the remaining 993 places are destinations I'll be visiting in less than three weeks. Four others are on my early radar planning stages.
And one of her choices in England really puffed out my chest. In early 2003, I was at Sissinghurst Gardens near Kent, the home of Harold Nicholson and Vita Sackville-West. She planned the entire layout herself, and constructed a lovely series of gardens around what was at the beginning a delapidated old house. Their son Nigel tells the story in his book PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE.
I also picked up the US version of 1000 Places - I'll peruse that one and post an update in a day or so.
I guess this would be the ultimate travel guide, and it's admittedly skewed toward one traveler's choices. But I couldn't resist picking it up at the bookstore the other day.
And of course, the first thing I did was thumb through it, keeping a tab on the places she mentions and where I have already been.
73 out of her 1000. She has things organized by geographical locations, so it was easy to skip over Africa, South America, and much of Asia. I was kind of impressed that I've been to so many. And a couple of her choices surprised me - the Iowa State Fair? Admittedly, I was there on a day when the temperature topped out at 108, but I think there are other places which could deservedly nudge it out of the top 1000.
And I impressed myself with noting that three of the remaining 993 places are destinations I'll be visiting in less than three weeks. Four others are on my early radar planning stages.
And one of her choices in England really puffed out my chest. In early 2003, I was at Sissinghurst Gardens near Kent, the home of Harold Nicholson and Vita Sackville-West. She planned the entire layout herself, and constructed a lovely series of gardens around what was at the beginning a delapidated old house. Their son Nigel tells the story in his book PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE.
I also picked up the US version of 1000 Places - I'll peruse that one and post an update in a day or so.
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