Donna Crawford
Redondo Beach, California

 
Bio:

I was born in North Carolina and lived there until I was about 2 or so.  My father was in the military, so we moved every year or two.  We lived up and down the east coast, in Arkansas, Germany and Kansas, before he retired in 1980.  I attended Manhattan High School (in Kansas) and college and law school at the University of Kansas (Go Jayhawks!!).

I've lived in Alabama, Georgia, Texas and California since leaving my parents' home.  I currently live in California with my husband Kirk (even while we were on our RTW, we considered California as home). My family and friends are scattered all over the place, as you can imagine.

My husband and I are highly involved with our church, locally. I have lots of hobbies, including cooking, HAM radio, reading, travelling, bzflag, and sports/outdoor activities. Although I love to watch Jayhawk Basketball, I generally prefer to participate. Some of my favorites are beach volleyball, scuba diving, cycling, rowing, swimming, snow skiing, tramping, surfing, off-roading, etc.

My travels over the last few years have taken me to Costa Rica, Hawaii, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and most recently, on a 15-country, 1-year round-the-world trip.

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Recent Articles

Wednesday, July 21

 

Ugh - sick!

There's not much more that I hate than being sick. Of course, a kidney infection isn't the worst thing that can happen to you, but nonetheless, it's the fastest way to boredom that I know. Once you get over the initial pain (and this was a doosey - complete with fever-related chills that would rack my body for up to 20 minutes at a time), there's not much you can do other than sleep, read a little (but that can be tiring), watch television (there's never anything on worth watching anyway) or ____ (fill in the blank). I can't even eat much at this point - well, I've forced myself to have something the last couple of days, but I wasn't really wanting to eat at all.

The real downer of the whole thing is that I had to leave my friend's wedding shower early (that's where the chills first hit me and I first realized something was wrong), I missed our church picnic AND I missed seeing a good friend from Denver who was in Long Beach for a regatta. And then, there's the boredom... Okay, I'll stop harping on about it. Send me emails, letters, whatever! It would be great to hear from some folks!

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Donna in Austria
Click for larger image Austria, August 2003