A Photo Story of my Grandmother's Final Journey

My grandmother past away last November and after the funeral, her remaining children divided her ashes to spread them around in different locations that held meaning to both her as well as her children. Since my grandmother was originally from the Northern Hills in Thailand, some of my aunts and uncle (who all live in Thailand) made the trip from flying from Las Vegas where the funeral was held (as she had lived with my parents since I was twelve) to Bangkok and then driving into the northern hills of Thailand where her remaining ashes are in the local temple. She is missed...

More pictures of the journey after the jump

All Images via Mary E.

Places to See-The Bucket List

Tokyo
Photograph by Puku/SIME-4Corners Images

Spain

Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net

Paris
Image Courtesy of Tourist Destinations

Shanghai
Image Courtesy of China Tour Guide

I'm sure quite a few of you have a bucket list of some sort; I for one, have so many things on my list that I think I will need Richard Branson's salary to partake in them (oh yea and retire at the age of 29 in order to do all of them). For now, let's focus on just the traveling- I've been blessed to have already been to Italy, Greece, Thailand, Bahamas, Caribbean and a handful of other countries, but I still get the craving to travel to places around the world that I haven't been to YET. My boyfriend and I's pipe dream is to finally save up enough money to live abroad (in Thailand where my mother's side of the family still live) and fully embrace another culture as our own, but as of now it's hard as like any American, I have bills to need to get paid and we also have amazing friends and jobs here in Las Vegas. 

Do you have any places that you would love to travel to on your bucket list?

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