This is it! August 2012

Fourteen months have come and gone and I have been blessed with good health, opportunity and one super fun ride! Just thinking about the last year and here are some random facts:

·          Boarded a plane 17 times

·        63,844 km via air travel

·        851 km by Euro Rail

·        8,525 km via car from destination to destination

·        14 weeks away from home

·         Visited 14 of the 962 World UNESCO Heritage Sites: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; Holy See, Historic Centre of Rome; Piazza del Duoma, Pisa; Florence Historic Centre; Siena; Cinque Terre; Assisi Basilica; Paris – Banks of the Siene; Notre Dame Cathedral; Versailles; Sydney Opera House, Blue Mountains, Australia; Great Barrier Reef; and Monticello VA  (clearly there is more traveling to do)

·        Four different time zones

·        105 blog posts

·        Thousands of pictures taken, 350 made the blog

·        Countless bottles of wine consumed

·        Varieties of Martinis taste tested and finished

·        Encountered 3 bears , one stingray and no sharks

·        Stayed married after trying to find our way out of Rome

·        So many memorable moments but two stand out more than the others, snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef and coming home from Australia in time to welcome our first grandchild Aiden into the world

It’s been a wonderful year and I was so happy to be able to share it with family and friends but none more than Alex.  Abraham Lincoln said, “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” 

I put a lot of life in the past year! J