This page has been scanned from my Mother’s Scrapbook. Here we find ourselves on one of our Annual Summer Road Trips in August of 1987.

This National Memorial is centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota.

Between October 4, 1927 and October 31, 1941, Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the colossal 60-foot-high carvings of United States Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln to represent the first 150 years of American history.

Open year-round and located near hotels, the park includes a half-mile walking trail, museum, gift shop and dining room. Just over two million people visit Mount Rushmore each year.

George Washington: First President of the United States Born 1732, died 1799. Washington led the colonists in the American Revolutionary War to win independence from Great Britain. He was the father of the new country and laid the foundation of American democracy. Because of his importance, Borglum chose Washington to be the most prominent figure on the mountain and represent the birth of the United States.	Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United States Born 1743, died 1826. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, a document which inspires democracies around the world. He also purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 which doubled the size of our country, adding all or part of fifteen present-day states. Gutzon Borglum chose Jefferson to represent the growth of the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt: 26th President of the United States Born 1858, died 1919. Roosevelt provided leadership when America experienced rapid economic growth as it entered the 20th Century. He was instrumental in negotiating the construction of the Panama Canal, linking the east and the west. He was known as the "trust buster" for his work to end large corporate monopolies and ensure the rights of the common working man. Borglum chose Roosevelt to represent the development of the United States.	Abraham Lincoln: 16th President of the United States Born 1809, died 1865. Lincoln held the nation together during its greatest trial, the Civil War. Lincoln believed his most sacred duty was the preservation of the union. It was his firm conviction that slavery must be abolished. Gutzon Borglum chose Lincoln to represent the preservation of the United States.

Within my Gallery Wall, you will see my Evil Eye hanging there. In Winter of 2008, I had a friend teaching English in Antalya, Turkey. Using my accumulated Aeroplan Miles from 5 years of flying to and from cruise ship contracts, I went to visit her.

In Turkey, the Evil Eye Amulet is referred to as a nazar. The nazar is an eye-shaped amulet believed to protect against the evil eye.

The belief in the evil eye is strongest in West Asia, Latin America, East and West Africa, Central America, South Asia, Central Asia, and Europe, especially the Mediterranean region and dates to at least the Greek classical antiquity, 6th century BCE, where it appeared on Chalcidian drinking vessels, known as 'eye cups'.

In Turkey, a typical nazar is made of handmade glass featuring concentric circles or teardrop shapes in dark blue, white, light blue and black, occasionally with a yellow/gold edge.

It is a common sight not only in Turkey but also in North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Armenia, Iran, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, and some regions of Georgia.

The nazar is often hung in homes, offices, cars, children's clothing, or incorporated in jewelry and ornaments to ward off effects of the evil eye, which is a superstitious curse or legend, believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when one is unaware.

They are a popular choice of souvenir with tourists, as myself was, and can be found in markets all over Turkey.

On this page of my scrapbook, you find me in the summer of 2001.

I joined Universe Explorer for a full season sailing the waters of Alaska. As I had my work experience from my tourism studies on Universe Explorer in the spring of 2000, I was familiar with this classic ship and the wonders that is Alaska.

One of the great wonders of Alaska is its wealth of tidal glaciers and there is non more historically enduring as Glacier Bay National Park & Reserve. This American national park located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau.

Sport hunting and trapping are allowed in the preserve as long as you have all required licenses and permits and follow all other state regulations.

Sport fishing is another activity popular in the park. Halibut are frequently esteemed by deep-sea fishers and in rivers and lakes Dolly Varden and rainbow trout provide sport.

Quick Fact: Tlingit Inhabitants Long before Europeans reached this part of the world it was inhabited by Tlingit Peoples, who had fishing camps set up on the shores of various inlets. While a glacial push about 300 years ago shoved many of these villages off the landscape, National Park Service historians note that “native people carried on their activities in many places along the nearby coast, places that may have been free of ice for as long as 13,000 years.”	Quick Fact: European Exploration The landscape that was to become Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve was ice-capped when European explorers first reached this corner of the world. When Capt. James Cook visited the area in 1778, the Glacier ran past present-day Bartlett Cove, almost into Icy Strait. When Capt. George Vancouver visited the area in 1794, the Glacier had backed up to Bartlett Cove. John Muir made his first visit to the region in 1879. Glaciers restricted his foray into the landscape to the area around Geikie Inlet, though when he returned in 1890 he was able to make it to the area that bears his name, Muir Point.	Quick Fact: Glacial Movements There are seven tidewater glaciers in the park. Four of these glaciers actively calve icebergs into the bay. In the 1990s, the Muir Glacier receded to the point that it was no longer a tidewater glacier. The advance and recession of the park’s glaciers has been extensively documented since 1786. According to the U.S. National Park Service, “In general, tidewater and terrestrial glaciers in the Park have been thinning and slowly receding over the last several decades.” Some glaciers continue to advance, including Johns Hopkins Glacier and glaciers in Lituya Bay.

On this page of my scrapbook, you find me during Easter Break, 1993. What exciting times for a 17-year-old travelling internationally for the first time! A group of 35 students from grades 10, 11 & 12, along with 5 teacher chaperones, embarked on a 10-day journey between London, Paris, and places in between.

On this page, scanned from my first scrapbook that I endeavoured to put together, we are getting a glimpse of 10 Downing Street. This is the headquarters of the Government of the United Kingdom and the official residence and office the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Originally built as three mansions between 1682 and 1684, the building we all know now from news broadcasts had been extensively rebuilt, most recently in 2010 to modernize the kitchen which had not been renovated in 50 years.

The top picture is the snap I took going past on the coach. The bottom one is the shot I got when we walked past the gates later that day. It is in the bottom photo that you can just make out the famous black facade of #10.