Karen Brown:  

I LOVE to travel! Right after graduation I toured Europe with the United States Collegiate Wind Band, playing bassoon! We made a record in France! In 1980 I was on Semester at Sea, a 100 day voyage around the world for college credit! Some of the countries included in our tour were Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, Egypt, Crete, Greece & Spain. I spent a summer teaching English as a second language in Taiwan while continuing to study Mandarin Chinese! Since then I have been to many islands in the Caribbean, Costa Rica (participated in the COSI home stay and language school!), Turkey, Dubai, Bali, both Eastern & Western Australia (I won a trip to the Audi Food & Wine Festival in Margaret River!), Kenya, South Africa (participated in the Great White Shark dive!), Lima, Cusco & Machu Pichu, Fiji, cruised the inside passage of Alaska & more! In 2010 we went to World's Fair in Shanghai, then to Xi'an to visit the Terracotta Soldiers, ending in Beijing, visiting Tiananmen Square & The Great Wall! My dad’s last bucket list was taking The Rocky Mountaineer across western Canada! We took him on this beautiful journey from Whistler to Vancouver, Kamloops, Jasper, ,Lake Louise, Banff & Calgary, visiting the ice fields, seeing wildlife & taking in nature at its finest! Our plans in 2018 include a tour of southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Cambodia and Tha...Expand for more