Life is a Masquerade

I like pretending to be other people.

I discovered drama class in junior high and joined the community theatre group in high school, sometimes front of house, sometimes on stage. This led to 2 1/2 years with a Christian theatre company in the USA called the Covenant Players.

We performed in churches, schools, universities & military bases all over the US. I loved the travel, especially meeting new people. We were billeted in people's homes so we got an insider's view of their town or state. That is really the way to get to know a new place - through the life of someone from there.

Through this experience I travelled the length and breadth of most of the USA. I have now been to or driven through 48 of the 50 states. The 2 I am missing are a little out of the way for through travel. Yes Hawaii is one that I have never been to but, no, Alaska is not the other. I have been there twice. I recently saw the coastal ports during a two week Alaska cruise and about 10 yrs ago I got a free ticket with Alaska Air by being bumped and went to the northern most point in Alaska, Barrow. It is 330 miles north of the Arctic Circle. There, I got to ride dogsled (and help harness the dogs) watch the processing by hand of a whale caught a few days earlier, an found wonderful Korean and Mexican food - go figure!

The other state I'm missing is Rhode Island. It's so small that you have to go there on purpose.