Traveling though the years

Traveling

Now that I am retired my wife and I do a lot of traveling or at least two trips a year seeing as much of the world as can before we leave it. I also research our families’ history and there I find that before my parents our families travel not just for fun, but for their very survival or to improve their lifestyle. A Lot of the family history ends up in Ireland where someone in the nineteenth century must of yelled abandon Ireland for many left around the 1840’s for Scotland, West Indies or North America. It was because of the famine of course and they had to travel or die. Now my parents a couple of generations later left Scotland for New York City not for survival, but hopefully for a better life for Scotland was in the middle of a depression. They came to New York in 1929 what luck huh! Lucky for me their life did improve by the 1940’s and they started taking vacations. The first trip that I remember was to Atlantic City New Jersey with my parent and my sister. Atlantic City back then was a little different than it is today no Casino’s but they did have the Steel Pier with a woman on a horse that dived into a pool of water at the end of the pier, a diving bell and many games to play. We saw a cowboy do some rope tricks and the Ice Show while we were there. My parent also brought me on trip to Gettysburg PA and to Canada. When I got married and had kids we liked to take them of trips to Florida to Disney World, the Kennedy Space Center and Busch Gardens. We also went to Canada as well as Virginia’s Williamsburg and Washington DC. Now that we are retired we have traveled as far west as Hawaii and as far east as Russia. So I guess your can say we have more fun traveling than our ancestors did and hopefully our kids and Grandkids will have even more opportunities to travel than we do.