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:
“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Yes, but I do not travel to find comfortable, rich, and hospitable people, or clear sky, or ingots that cost too much. But if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all, and buy it, and put myself on the road to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)