| Selecting Assignments Where You Desire No one | | | | site of the road picture on my first travel |
| else can tell you where to go as a travel | | | | nursing book, Highway Hypodermics: Your Road |
| nurse-well, not unless you're married. You | | | | Map to Travel Nursing. While on assignment in |
| are free to fly with the wind to the most | | | | Iowa, we toured the bridges of Madison County |
| exotic and out-of-the-way places like the | | | | and John Wayne's birthplace on one road trip, |
| rural areas of Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska or | | | | and later made a trip to Minneapolis, |
| Iowa, or enjoy an assignment in the | | | | Minnesota to watch the Twins play baseball |
| metropolis of New York City, Miami, Los | | | | and visit the Mall of America. One assignment |
| Angeles, or Phoenix. Travel to the beaches | | | | in Tupelo, Mississippi not only took us to |
| of Southern California, Atlantic City or | | | | the site of Elvis's birthplace, but a day |
| Hawaii. Assignments can also be found | | | | adventure took us to the place where he lived |
| ranging in areas from the Virgin Islands to | | | | and died, at Graceland, in Memphis, |
| the great state of Alaska. You might have to | | | | Tennessee. On a bigger adventure, we spent |
| change companies, but so far I have gone | | | | some time a week before Christmas at the |
| every place that I have wanted to visit. | | | | Opryland Hotel in Nashville and had the |
| This is easier done if you have more than one | | | | extraordinary experience of Christmas in |
| specialty, like medical intensive care, | | | | Nashville. While in Nashville we explored |
| surgical intensive care, cardiovascular | | | | many sites, such as the Ryman Auditorium, the |
| intensive care, and emergency room, or | | | | Country Music Hall of Fame, and took in a |
| telemetry, medical, surgical, step-down and | | | | show at the Grand Ole Opry. See The United |
| rehab. What other career will allow you to be | | | | States When I started out as a traveling |
| a snowbird when you are thirty-five years old | | | | nurse, I had been east of the Mississippi |
| instead of sixty-five years old? When it | | | | River once, and that was for less than |
| comes time to make a move, my husband | | | | twenty-four hours. Now I can say that I have |
| selects what state he would like to go to, | | | | not only crossed the mighty Mississip, but I |
| then I put my state into the mixture and we | | | | have even made it to the Eastern Time Zone. |
| submit to those hospitals and see who gives | | | | In the last two years alone I have been from |
| us the best deal. My son would have a | | | | the beaches of Pismo, California to Southern |
| choice, but he just wants to go to | | | | Miami Beach, and from the swamps of Louisiana |
| Washington, where his girlfriend is. For the | | | | to the lakes of Minnesota. If water and |
| summer, I wanted Nebraska and hubby wanted | | | | beaches are not your thing, then how about an |
| Iowa; we went to Iowa. For the winter, I | | | | amazing sunset in the Arizona sky? Or you can |
| wanted Florida, hubby wanted southern Texas: | | | | take in the breath-taking view from the top |
| I'm writing this chapter in Florida. And | | | | of the Colorado mountains. How about a goal |
| yes, next summer we plan on spending it in | | | | of seeing all the National Parks that the |
| Washington State. Miniature Vacations One of | | | | United States has to offer? You can visit |
| my favorite aspects of travel nursing is the | | | | the Everglades, the Appalachians, The Rocky |
| mini-vacations. These are little two nights | | | | Mountains, Yellowstone, The Grand Canyon, and |
| away to some place a little farther than you | | | | Yosemite. Are you into history? How about a |
| could go on a day trip. When I was in Central | | | | trip through the history of the United |
| California, my family and I went to San | | | | States, from Washington D.C. to the Battle of |
| Francisco one day then up the Pacific coast | | | | New Orleans, the Battle of Shiloh, or the |
| highway to the Redwoods. The first night we | | | | Alamo. Don't forget to visit the many |
| stayed at a small motel on the outskirts of | | | | military museums, including the Smithsonian, |
| San Francisco in an older fishing village. | | | | the Air Force Museum in Pensacola, FL, and |
| The second night we stayed in the Redwoods. | | | | there are several battleships to visit. |
| The trees were gorgeous, with their red and | | | | |
| green colors. The Redwood Trail is also the | | | | More articles from this pro: LaRue. |