Comments on: Author Lucy Monroe: A Passion for Travel

By: Lucy Monroe

Lucy Monroe — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:15:54 +0000

Oh, Kate…me too! I love maps, and globes and travel picture books. It’s all food for the soul to me. LOL

By: KateHewitt

KateHewitt — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:09:19 +0000

Hi Lucy,

I was lucky to have traveled a bit growing up–mostly to England for family holidays. Then in college I backpacked around Europe on two separate occasions, and then lived in England for six years. But since settling back in the US in 2003, I haven’t traveled as much, alas! It’s hard with the little ones I’d love to go to India, Australia, and Uganda. Those are my top three–for the moment! In the meantime, I love looking at maps–there is something so fascinating about having all those foreign places spread out before you! Thanks for sharing your photos and memories. They’re great.

Kate

By: Lucy Monroe

Lucy Monroe — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:50:29 +0000

Crystal…hope you get to the places you want to visit! I love sharing photos, they tell a story words can’t.

Cryna…exactly. I remind my kids of that – we live surrounded by beauty (between the mountains and the ocean) with so many spots of interest less than thirty minutes from our home. Unfortunately, none of them share my love for museums and art galleries. They did when they were small, but as teens – that’s all too boring for them. LOL They’ll renew their appreciation when they’re older I’m sure.

Jodi…I love road trips and I hope you and your family get to start taking more of them. Your comment made me think, “Where can we go next?” LOL

AmyM…glad you liked the pics and I get the fear of heights. Luckily for you, there are lots and lots of places to reach by train and car.

Allison…if I ever did that (and I’ve thought about it), I’d want to take them all with me. I’ll have to make a lot more money than I do now to make that happen though. LOL

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:09:06 +0000

Hi Lucy, have you combined a big travel with the christmas/holiday season? From your personal blog/site, it sounds like you love christmas and all the decorating, and celebrating at home. It would be neat to see first-hand how other countries celebrate but there would be so much family and friends to miss too! Thanks for sharing your photos and memories.

By: AmyM

AmyM — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:37:33 +0000

I forgot to addI love the pictures and your blog

By: AmyM

AmyM — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:36:44 +0000

Lucy, First of all I love Rancher’s Rules but that is not surprise I love all your books.

Your son’s comment to the flight attendant was so funny, you could use that in a book!

I have never been on a plane and I never want to. I am terrified of heights, I won’t even get on escalators in department stores

By: JodiS

JodiS — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:59:12 +0000

I like to travel, but have not left the US (yet!), except for Mexico, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
We drive everywhere and we’ve gotten to visit some great places. Now that our girls are old enough, we’ll probably start this up again. We have so many neat places to visit close to us, but haven’t even done that yet! We’re always too busy driving back to the Midwest for some reason!

By: Cryna

Cryna — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:49:03 +0000

Hi Lucy

I would love to travel more. The little I did with my parents and then with my husband was always exciting.

I love your pictures, and as you say sometimes things we have in our own back yard – so to speak – gets overlooked. We have to look at things through the eyes of visitors, since we have a tendancy to take it all for granted.

By: CrystalGB

CrystalGB — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:26:29 +0000

Hi Lucy. I have never gotten to travel much. There are lots of places I would love to visit. I love your photos. Thank you for sharing.

By: Lucy Monroe

Lucy Monroe — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:32:35 +0000

Jane…you’ve been more places than a lot of people. What’s the percentage of people in the US that don’t have their passports? It’s WAY higher than other Western countries, but with the new border crossing requirements into Mexico and Canada, I do believe that is going to change eventually. Which doesn’t have a thing to do with your comment except it does highlight how many people don’t travel outside their own country, especially where I live.

JulieS…I used to envy military kids. I changed schools as often as most of the ones I knew, but I didn’t get to move to a different part of the country to do it. I learned to love certain elements of change (there can be benefits to anything, you know…even an alcoholic father) and I think that fed my willingness to travel. Over the years, dh and I have chosen to drive older cars (and for many years only one car), live in smaller houses, etc. so we could travel. I once thought of writing a book, “Traveling Cheap not Chintzy” because I had discovered so many ways to travel on a small budget.

Who knows…someday, I may yet write that book. LOL