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