30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 8

Day 8: A Place (or Places) I've Traveled To
This may be my favorite post yet -I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to experience several countries!

© Japonka | Dreamstime.comI was born in Hawaii and moved to Japan when I was around one.My parents took us on road trips all over Japan.We visited towns where the people had never seen Americans.The people gasped when my siblings and I started speaking Japanese.They gathered around us and bought us ice cream!

© Mval | Dreamstime.comAt age 11, we moved to the United States.To date, I have visited (meaning an actual stay vs. just driving through)18 States including Alaska and Maine.

© Thethirdman | Dreamstime.comI spent a month total in Kenya and Ethiopia with friends from Bible schooland fell in love with Ethiopia.A year and a half later, I moved to Ethiopia for a year as a missionary.Though I intended to remain in Africa for the rest of my life,God had other plans for me.

© Svetlana Kashkina | Dreamstime.comPrior to coming back to the U.S. to get married,I spent almost 3 months in Bulgaria, traveling all over that countryfor the same organization that sent me to Ethiopia.

© Christina Deridder | Dreamstime.comWhen my daughter was one, my husband and I took her to Holland for 2 weeksbecause we were planning on moving there to work with a Christian ministry.It wasn't the right time for our family, but we loved Europe.

Our last major trip was 1st to Canada, then Alaska.We won a cruise and fell in love with Alaska.Then again, I don't think we've been anywhere we haven't loved.

© Easyshutter | Dreamstime.comNow if only I could hurry up and get to Paris, the city of my dreams! My friend and I were supposed to go back In March to celebrate our upcoming 40th birthdays,but I moved to Colorado.SOON.