Seen at our lunch stop. We saw a good deal of the countryside on our 9-hour drive to Kuala Besut.

Photo by Kristine K. Stevens, a curious traveler, author and beekeeper who is hiking the Buckeye Trail in Ohio.

Previously, Kristine sold her house, quit her job and traveled around the world. Learn more at "If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World."

Of course... You should take a picture of a palmtree when You have the chance.

Cayo Coco, Cuba

Pub Reference:

The Palm Tree, Bow, London E3.

First visited 2016

this is our small palmtree in full fruits

We do have palm trees in Nampa, carefully tended by Southern California ex-pat Chris Cusimano, orthodontist.

Palm tree in the mist

San Diego, CA

(2011)

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

~ John Steinbeck

Those poetic words bring out the silent beauty of the process of change - a bit more optimistic than most of my experiences, but the 'concealed' nature of its entrance is so oft true. Naples, FL

Palms against the sky,

Failing the hot, hard blue;

Stark on the beach I lie,

Dreaming horizons new;

Heart of my youth elate,

Scorning a humdrum fate,

Keyed to adventure high -

Palms against the sky.

Trees, trees against the sky -

O I have loved them well!

There are pleasures you cannot buy,

Treasurers you cannot sell,

And not the smallest of these

Is the gift and glory of trees. . . .

So I gaze and I know now why

It is good to live - and to die. . . .

Trees and the Infinite Sky.

Robert W. Service

Waikiki, Hawaii

Sète, France

This image is by Kristine K. Stevens, who sold her house, quit her job and traveled around the world. To learn more about her adventure, read "If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World."

Palm trees

Nieuw Nickerie

Isla Saona, Dominican Republic

Summer 2009

At Half Moon Caye, Belize.

In Honolulu!

sun reflection through the palmleaf

at sunset

March 2010.

At Half Moon Caye, Belize.

Anaheim, CA

saturday night...

A calming view at Zanzibar, tanzania