Karen Tooley
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Tourism |
| Occupation | Travel Planner |
| Location | Sherman, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | I began traveling abroad in '82 when my husband and I spent a year in Germany for his dissertation research. Since then I have had the good fortune to cross the Atlantic 36 times for a total of 120 weeks abroad. I have stayed in hotels, homes, hostels, tents. I have washed clothes in bidets, eaten peanut butter with a toothbrush handle, been attacked by a parrot, given birth speaking German. (“Keep the drugs flowing, bitte.”) I have traveled with my husband, our three sons, friends, college students, alums. Everyone has a travel philosophy, I suppose, and mine is: Do not complain. People will begin avoiding you and you'll soon have no dining companions. Instead, just be happy you're on a trip and not at home taking out the trash. |
| Interests | Travel, Hiking, English Country Dancing, Cooking, Reading |
| Favorite movies | The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Shenandoah, Houseguest, The In-Laws (1979), Silverado, True Grit, Star Wars, Napoleon Dynamite, A Night at the Opera, Emma, Sense and Sensibility |
| Favorite music | The Drifters, Linda Ronstadt, Sam Cooke, Barbara Streisand, Patsy Cline, Billy Joel, Chris Isaak, Cat Stevens, Herman's Hermits, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Bad Hat, The Beach Boys |
| Favorite books | Emma, Pride and Prejudice, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Good Soldier, Charlotte's Web, Stalky & Company, The Three Musketeers, Captain Blood, Jeff Milton a Good Man With a Gun, Last of the Mohicans, The Count of Monte Cristo |