Little Missy went where?

Oh! the places you’ll go.

Our little baby doll just completed a year earlier this month. When we sat down to plan a celebration of her first year and we were just recapitulating the year that went by and it dawned on us that Little Missy had done quite a lot of travel as she was (zero) going on ONE.

Her first day out might have been that homeward bound drive from the hospital. And that was followed by several trips back to the hospital and the clinics for vaccinations. But this one soon set out to see the world she was born into.

Her first real trip must have been to the OregonZoo in Portland. She was barely a couple of months old when she was strolled into the zoo and she spent a good part of it bundled up and asleep. (But mommy took lots of pictures for her to see when she is old enough look at the places she has gone.) Or was it that scenic drive around Clarke County (in Washington) she went on, one rainy day that was her first proper day-out? That doesn’t matter, she didn’t see much that day either.

That was only the beginning. In the months that followed, she saw quite a bit of the Pacific Northwest and then flew across a part of the country and spent a day in Chicago. Later she did her first air travel to India (at the age of 5 months) and then went about travelling Kerala and Karnataka a wee bit of Tamilnadu. Her foot-stops include:

• Seattle, Washington
• Olympia, Washington
• Woodburn, OR
• Mt. Rainier, WA
• Portland, Oregon
• Astoria, OR
• Tillamook, OR
• Canon Beach, OR 
• Mt. Helen’s
• Chicago
• Bangalore
• Mysore
• Kochi
• Kozhikode
• Wayanad
• Jog Falls, Shimoga, Karnataka
• Bhadra Wildlife Sanctury, Chickmangalur
• A road trip along the coast of Karnataka (from Karwar in Uttar Kannada to Surathkal in Dakshina Kannada)

(In other words, I seem to have made up for that missed ear-end post where I look back at the year gone by, as far as travel is concerned. 🙂 With this, it also feels like I just reminded myself about how much more writing I have to do. Hmm… all that backlog doesn’t stop me from doing more trips. 😐 I’m not alone here, am I? ;))

Little Missy at Canon Beach, OR; her first trip to the seaside.

A day by Vancouver Lake, Vancouver, WA.

@Tillamook Cheese Factory.

@Space Needle — to see Seattle from 605 ft.

On the way to Mt. St Helens, a Volcanic Mountain on the Cascade Range in Washington.

L-R: Baby doll on her first Wildlife Safari, On her first visit to Scotland of India &  her first trip to God’s Own Country