Where Do You Want Travel Nursing To Take You?

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