Lines written at the beach on our 2011 Summer solstice family vacation:
I've held tigers and rode camels I've sailed through the Bermuda Triangle and down the Nile.![]()
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I've wandered through the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan in Mexico for a while. I've climbed up pyramids and into tombs in Egypt's Luxor, Saqqara, Giza, and Dashur. I've taken three daughters to the monkey temple In India's beautiful Jaipur.
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I've slept upon a cruise ship, in hotels overlooking ancient temples and in a palace. I've stood looking through the hole in the ceiling of Rome's Pantheon, now a church, alas. I've walked up Teotihuacan's avenue of the dead with my eldest daughter to the pyramids of the moon and sun then we ate in a cave restaurant there after.
I've ate dinner looking into the face of the sphinx, many a night. I've had breakfast with Chichen Itza's mysterious Observatory within my sight.
I've watched the sun rise and set over the cities of Rome, Cairo, and New Delhi. I've watched the sun shine on my six kids playing, every summer solstice, in the sea.
I've got still more to do and view on adventures to come yet. But I've no postponed joy, no dreams deferred and no regret.
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This is a poem I wrote BEFORE I was able to start traveling at age 35.....So many sights that I've always wanted to see Magical places I must someday be Flower colored and scented Hawaiian Islands With great volcanoes smoking above their sands As drummers and dancers do beckon The rising and setting great golden sun Ancient Stonehenge's megaliths standing eternally In their fairy tale land of castles and pageantry The fairy folk's secret trails of old With leprechauns guarding pots of gold Mexican lost cities in the jungles lay Waiting for me to find them one day Egypt's pyramids sphinx and Nile Have stood waiting for me quite a while The ancient Gods of many a place Have yet to gaze down upon my worshiping face So many wonders I've yet to behold So much I want to see before I get old.