With my sun sign in Sagittarius, I love to travel and explore more of the world. As a writer, I find that travel opens up opportunities that I cannot find at home.

For example, last year I got to check off one of my “bucket list” items by going on a tour of Egypt. Ever since I took an elective course in archaeology while an undergrad, I wanted to go to Egypt. Not only did I get the chance to see the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and many other pyramids and temples, I got to ride in a hot air balloon in Luxor, Egypt. 

That proved exhilarating as I stood with over twenty others and flew high above the Arabian desert and the Nile River. I rode a camel, briefly, down a sand dune, and got to bargain in the bazaars of Cairo and other cities.

Recently, I got to hike a rather easy trail to an observatory to view the highest mountains in Europe in Switzerland on a tour which included seeing the Matterhorn, 14,478 meters high which makes it one of the highest summits in the Alps and in Europe and Jungfraujoch, 11,362 feet in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.

I’m hoping to get the chance to check off another of my “bucket list” items with a photo safari in eastern Africa sometime next year. I started packing already.

Whenever I travel, I take notes about the tours, the events, and even the food. It’s not writing for story telling but for myself. I like to look back, sometimes, and remember those places I’ve been to. If I happen to give a story a foreign setting that I’ve been to, so much the better.

Where on Earth have you been? Are you writing about it?

Happy Writing!

Cathy