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:
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“You are wonderful. I love and honor you.... [ellipsis in source] Lead your own life, attend to your charities, cultivate yourself, travel when you wish, bring up the children, run your house. I’ll give you all the freedom you wish and all the money I can but—leave me my business and politics.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)