Travel to Learn Geography
In “Travel to Learn Geography,” Episode, #143, Meredith Curtis shares how traveling to other states and countries have taught her so much about their culture, natural resources, farming, businesses, landforms, and religion. Meredith shares how to start with travel locally, statewide, and beyond your borders. Best of all, Meredith gives practical tips and fun ways to travel right from your family room.
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Show Notes
I love to travel! Trains, cars, planes, boats—even buses. The thrill of adventure gets me every time.
Netherlands: bikes, tall, cheese, read the street signs in Dutch, but not understand a word of English, canals, canal houses, Corrie ten Boom house
Rome: Jail cell of Paul, 3-layers of churches, the art in the Vatican, the magnificence of the Colosseum, that’s where Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
London: Tube, cathedrals, museums, Rosetta Stone, mummies, Gutenberg Bibles, rose gardens, tea at the Orangery
Start Where You Are/Travel Locally
I live in Florida. Smack dab in the center.
Farms (pick-your-own places—chat with owners)
Museums
Sunday Drives (Lake Mary, Pembroke Pines, 46 to I-95)
Explores
What is in your city?
Travel Statewide
Beaches, Tide Pools, Sand Dunes, Grasses, Life everywhere!
Birds, Alligators, Flowers, Blue Skies
Coral Reefs down in the Keys
Rolling hills in the panhandle
Lake Okeechobee, St. John’s River—Boating, too!
Parks, Forests, Wilderness Areas, Wet Walks, Swamps, Airboats
Cities, Heritage Neighborhoods, Local Museums
St. Augustine, Theme Parks, NASA
What is in Your State?
Across the USA
So much to see!
- Swamps, Beachs, Farms, Lakes, Rolling hills in the South
- Chesapeake Bay, Farms, Hills, Famous Cities in the Mid-Atlantic
- Mountains, History, Famous Cities, Farms, Villages in New England
- Plains, Great Lakes, Farm Belt, Rust Belt in Midwest
- Cattle Ranching, Oil Rigs, Rugged Terrain in Southwest
- Mountains, Arches, Ranches in West
- Diverse from Arctic to Tropical in the Pacific
Travel to Other Countries
Start with our Territories: US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa
- Caribbean
- South America
- Europe
- Africa
- Middle East
- Asia
- Australia/New Zealand
- Oceania (Polynesia in old books)
- Antartica
Travel from Your Family Room
Books
Movies
Travel Videos
Travel Journal
Travel God’s World Geography
Travel God’s World Cookbook
Restaurants
Maps
Mapping
Photos
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