Pondering with a Purpose - Traveling

Welcome to Pondering with a Purpose -

 This is my weekly hop where I post a prompt and you get to write to it on your blog - come back here and add it to my linky and then we all get to go read what you wrote!

I started Pondering with a Purpose because -- simply put -- I am a writer - - that is what I do (I just can't help myself)! And although I love following all the hops, I wanted to see if I could bring out some creativity in not only myself, but some of my blogger friends as well.

The rules are really easy:

1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in my sidebar)
2. Look at the week's prompt
3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.
4. Come back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list below.
5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.
6. AND most of all.... Have fun!


This Week's prompt is:                             Travel

What is your favorite mode of travel?


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I have traveled on a train, a bus, a plane, a boat, and of course in a car and a motor home and I would have to say my favorite way to travel and take a vacation is to cruise. It is like taking your hotel with you! I will never forget how excited I was the first time I went on a cruise. It was in 2003. It was a three day cruise to Catalina and Ensenada. My mom took the whole family. We had so much fun that two and a half years later we all went for a week to Alaska - that was in August 2006. I decided then and there that I was going to move to Alaska! Of course it was August and I was staying on a ship! One year later I took my kids to Hawaii, we flew to Honolulu and island hopped - well the ship island hopped - and we were able to use the ship as a floating hotel. It was a great way to see Hawaii and not have to pay the exorbitant hotel and food rates as all the food is included on the ship. The next year I went to the Caribbean and that was not the best trip - and that was the end of the cruising excursions for my family as the kids have since moved on to greener pastures..... BUT I still believe that this is the best way to travel. You get to see exotic locations, eat great food, have decent accomodations - it's not the ritz! There is daily and nightly entertainment and it is a great value for your money. I would also have to believe that now in light of this latest misshap this business will be issuing some great discounts!

So... how about you? What's your favorite mode of travel?

I'd love it if you wrote a post and linked up... but if not, write a comment... or better yet... do both!

Happy Pondering!