Travel
Welcome to travel ➕explore ➕play with Sallee Jay, where I am your host. 👋🏾💓‼️ To all of my Jays I hope you are soaring and flying high!
As the old expression goes, “a picture is worth a million words.” Well my friends that is what I have for you on today’s blog. I’ve been attempting to write my birthday blog for weeks but the truth is somethings are left better unsaid.
Enjoy chapter 39 in pictures. The theme release, rebuild, repurpose and reconnect!
Read MoreDuring COVID-19 and prior to the murder of George Floyd, I posed the question on my social media channels, “would you host an exchange student post the pandemic?” And the answer was overwhelmingly, NO! I want you to reconsider. 🧐
Read MoreMy mom is a very thoughtful woman. I remember when I was 17 and on an international trip for two weeks to Australia and New Zealand my mother made sure I was greeted with messages from her at each new hotel stop. Mind you this is the pre email era, right at the beginning of the explosion 💥 of the internet. So she called each hotel and left messages with the desk for me to receive upon arrival. As the only black kid on the trip, who was designated as the group “Aborigine,” (Native tribal people of the Australian bush) knowing that I was loved that far away made me feel special and gave me what I needed to not let social and economic factors ruin a trip of a lifetime.
Read MoreDue to COVID-19 museums, zoos and theme parks have resorted to offering virtual tours. Now is a great time to pre-plan future vacations, see national landmarks from your own home and learn about history at your own leisure and pace. Join me on a virtual field trip/scavenger hunt through parts of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Read MoreChapter 38’s theme is, “Do What You Love!” So in that spirit, I took a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico and stayed in the cutest AirBnB, doing only the things that I loved.
This includes great food, cool experiences, great art and bucket list items. Keep reading as I detail my favorite parts of birthday extravaganza.
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