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Relationship

Married. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

Washington DC

Places I've been

I have visited all the US states except Alaska, Maine and Vermont. I have traveled in most of the Canadian provinces and all European countries except Portugal. I have been to European Russia, Siberia, the Russian Far East and Kazakstan. I was born in Princeton Indiana, raised in Washington, DC, lived in Md, Fl,Va,Tx,MA,AR,NV and Germany. Now back in AR I have traveled more in Germany and Poland than in other European countries.

More about me

I am a mother and a grandmother who loves to ride trains. I beat the Guinness World Record on unduplicated rail miles and was first listed in the 1998 book. To beat the record I travelled by rail through 33 countries. I am also an author. One of my book titles is listed in eons book gallery: Tomorrow the Train:Journey to the World Record." I love to read both fiction and nonfiction.

Activities

walking (especially in the wind or rain). Writing, reading and discussing anything and everything with family or on my group sites.

Favorite Charities

I do charitable works on my own.

Favorite Music

Classical. oldies from the 40s, 50s and later. Rock and roll or other fast music when I am dancing.

Favorite TV Shows

English comedies, Rick Steves' and Samantha Brown's travel shows, the original Mission Impossible, the old Carol Burnet Show, Mama's Family, Designing Women, Golden Girls, America's Most Wanted, and some of the old movies.

Favorite Movies

Enigma, One Against the Wind, Frequency, While You Were Sleeping, Forever Young, All the James Bond movies, the Pink Panther movies, the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Chocolat, The Last Holiday., You've Got Mail, The Man With One Red Shoe, Big

Favorite Books

The Kite Runner, The Shell Seekers, The India Fan, Night Train to Turkestan, Stamboul Train, The Green Train, In Search of a Childhood Song, Terrorism 101.

Favorite Quotes

Favorite People

Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, Audrey Hepburn. And the still living ones: John Walsh, Chris Hansen

Favorite Places

Eastern Seaboard and the Rocky Mt areas of the US, Germany, Switzerland, Romania, Russia and Kazakstan.

Favorite Animals

Cats, dogs, frogs, birds, dragonflies and butterflies.

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