Wanderin' Star

My brother and I have always liked the song from Paint Your Wagon called "Wanderin' Star". It was sung in the movie by Lee Marvin, of all folks. A line we took to heart was "wheels were made for rolling. Mules were made to pack. I never saw a sight that didn't look better lookin' back."

Besides living all over the Midwest, I've done a bit of visiting too, with and without my brother.
My whole family has itchy feet. My brother could put more states on his map, and a few foreign countries, too, thanks to Uncle Sam. He was stationed in Germany before he was sent to Viet Nam. Of course we both got to visit Mexico when we lived in South Texas. My present husband took a 48 state motorcycle trip a few years ago. He'd get to color in the whole US map for the Lower 48 and Hawaii. He's been to Mexico for fun and Viet Nam thanks to Uncle Sam. My first husband was born in Honduras, so he could add that one to his map. When he was stationed at NAS Dallas, he was sent to Rota, Spain and Sicily for a few weeks. More spots for the map.

Maybe the best traveled of my friends is my friend Steve, from whom I cribbed the source of these maps. http://www.epgsoft.com/VisitedStatesMap/index.html Steve was an Air Force brat so he covered a lot of states and foreign countries while growing up. Oddly enough, he graduated from high school in Wichita, Kansas and looks at Kansas as home base. I'm a Kansan, too, but we had to go to Dallas-Ft.Worth to meet each other.

I guess that just goes to show it's really a small world, and getting smaller everyday. If we put pins in the map forall the folks who read this blog ... Well, we'd probably manage to get a goodly part of the globe.

Guess that Wanderin' Star shines on all of us.