Consistency

Not sure if this is really true or just a great excuse for those who are inconsistent and imaginative. (As seen in Irvington VA.)

A fanatic

In Irvington, VA on the Chesapeake Bay, we ate breakfast every morning at a cute little shop in town called "The Local." It was in a row of quaint shops all connected yet all separated by white picket fences and these cute little signs with insightful quotes poked out of the ground in strategic spots. Just as you finished chuckling at one, there was another.

Tacky but clever

More wisdom from a come from a tea towel? (Seen in the gift shop at The Tides Inn in Irvington, VA on the Chesapeake Bay.)

Southern Diplomacy

Who knew such wisdom could come from a tea towel? (Seen in the gift shop at The Tides Inn in Irvington, VA on the Chesapeake Bay.)

Happiness

The Happiest People don`t have the best of everything,
they just make the best of everything

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from an email signature line

I can do that!

So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can.

~ Ecclesiastes 3:12, NLT
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I totally agree with this "Verse of the Day." I will work hard to carry out this advice. :-)

Thank you, Mother and Daddy!

"Travel is the death of prejudice."
~Samuel Clemens

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I'm pretty sure that wasn't the main motivation, but my parents felt like travel was one of the most important things we could do as a family and they instilled a love of travel in both my sister and me. We've both been to all 50 states (several times for most of them). Together we've been to six European countries and on other journeys, we've both been to others (she more than I, but I'll catch up some day). Our parents have been to even more than that and just returned from a 32-day cruise down the Asian coast. There's so much to learn when you travel, but obviously, there's so much more to gain.