Travel
Sand dedicated much of her life to seeing the world, and continued her explorations even after losing her husband to Alzheimer's disease in 2001. Her journeys included trips to the Galapagos Islands, South America, Mexico, Hawaii, Mount St. Helens, Iguaca Falls, Turkey, Iceland, Ecuador, parts of Asia, and the Danube and Rhine Grand Circle in Europe. In January 2005 she made a trip to Antarctica, moving from island to island at the age of 76. In 1994 and 1995 she was a lecturer on cruise ships for the Cunard Line. She went on many geology trips to the Southwest United States, one of which took her to a ranch where a mastodon with an arrowhead in his ribs had been found, proving the coexistence of humans and mastodons 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
Sand's ashes have been scattered by her family in the Colorado River of the Grand Canyon, whose rapids she conquered on nine separate occasions. Her enthusiasm for taking on new horizons was a key part of the legacy she imparted to her many students.
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Famous quotes containing the word travel:
“Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man’s life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I was born and raised in a neighborhood called Noah’s Ark. If you didn’t travel in pairs, you just didn’t travel.”
—Stanley Shapiro (1925–1990)