Welcome to my travels

I began my travels at the age of three on a road trip with my family from Missouri to California, and I have been making lists and on the move ever since. I visited all 50 states in the USA and Puerto Rico too (a place on my “happy to revisit” list). Time is ticking away, and I must explore my home base of planet Earth. When there are flights to the Moon, I will be on the waiting list.

I love lists and booking trips almost as much as the trip itself. According to Applied Research in Quality of Life, planning your trip can make you happier than taking it. There are places I am happy to exclaim, “I have been there,” while being relieved to know I will never have to go back, whereas other places call me back over and over, like Great Britain, France, and Italy where I find an excuse to stop in on my way to visit other places. However, my main goal is to add new places to my list, like a birder searching for that next bird.

My lists are organized by year, but I also have lists by cruise ships and who I traveled with, and a list of countries visited, plus a short list of places I want to visit before I die, because visiting them after death is no fun at all. My favorite countries list is alphabetical, not chronological. I have visited 92 countries as of Dec. 2019.

I write Yelp and Google reviews on restaurants, hotels, and other attractions under the names “Debra “D Kay” R.” on Yelp with over 600 reviews and 4,000 photos, many of which have been chosen to represent a business, and “D. Kay Renick” as a local guide on Google with over 2,500 contributions and over two million views of my photos, much to my amazement. Over 300,000 views of my enchilada photo at Castañeda’s Mexican Food restaurant in Cathedral City, CA leaves me flummoxed about the impact of my photo posts. I mean, it’s just an enchilada, although a very tasty one.

I travel more than half of the time, but do spend the other half in the Central Coast and Palm Springs, California areas during the other half. Both locations are photogenic as well. My goal is to share the beauty, interesting places, and unusual cocktails of the world.