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