![Apollo Ring in Chicheniitza, photo by Roni Gallo](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957a6462e69cfa3b96dbc02/1498916423522/roni+apollo.jpg)
Over the past few months I have been taken on a vicarious world tour, via the photos of jewelry shared by customer’s on their travels to Greece, Russia, Mexico, India, the Galapagos Islands, New Mexico and more! Its quite a thrill to see jewelry made in my tiny Tokeland Washington studio end up in some of the world’s most exotic places-but fitting too. As the materials I use, be it ancient Greek coins or sea glass from England or Japan, came from times and places far removed from me, they are only in my hands for a short time in their overall existence.
![Jean's sea glass and copper cuff, Galapagos Island](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957ab1a29687fc2c81e41cc/1498917675616/galapagos+cuff.jpg)
Jean and Marianne took the trip of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands this Spring. I was beyond thrilled when they sent photos of their cuffs in such a primeval setting. They seem to belong there! (The bottom cuff was a collaboration between myself and Earl Davis of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, who supplied the drawing which I chased into the copper.)
![Marianne's chased copper cuff, Galapagos Island](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957abb72cba5e29701c6507/1498917824997//img.jpg)
My good friend and Tokeland neighbor, Jeffro, traveled to Russia this Spring to be a participant in a wood carving invitational. He wore his ancient Greek coin ring and other pieces, promising me he would get a pic from Red Square-and of course he did!
![Poseidon Ring in Red Square](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957aec8db29d6f52c79af4b/1498918607704//img.jpg)
![Jeffro (center) and two of his Russian carving buddies in their](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957af453a0411886e268a79/1498918742106//img.jpg)
One of my customers, Gosia, (who I have never met in person but feels like a friend,) is a massage therapist and intrepid traveler. She own several of my pieces and sends me pics from her travels, featuring the scenery of her current locale.
![Sea Glass Ring with pottery shard at Bears Ears National Monument, New Mexico](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957b0b5be6594afd0eb3c4d/1498919098463//img.jpg)
Gosia traveled to India and happily for me, took photos of a labradorite ring I recently made in some of the most exotic settings imaginable. The luminosity of the stone and the pure magic of India are a match made in heaven. Thank you Gosia!
![Chakra Ring at the Taj Mahal](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957b3781b10e306fe1c0388/1498919803181//img.jpg)
![Mehindi hands for a wedding](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957b3be4c8b039fc4a4a680/1498919873214//img.jpg)
![An Elephant's Eye](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ce6b0f746fb94cb6e10ec9/56d62e8922482e9545dd7660/5957b40db11be1df63d63c9e/1498919953463//img.jpg)
Rachel, from the UK wore her Japanese sea glass ring, made in the USA to Greece-that’s covering quite a lot of the globe!
Before the summer is over, I will be adding to this series myself-as I travel to England and Scotland in search of sea glass.
Until then I will close with photos of recent jewelry modeled by my daughter, Sophia. (Proud Mother Moment-she just graduated from high school and the local community college, and now poised for her own globetrotting adventures.)
Happy Trails!