The following is a Guest Post via Kalen Weldon Travel nursing to me when I was a child was something I didn’t really understand. I just knew my mom worked really hard and it was her dream to be a travel nurse.  When we hit the open road, I began to enjoy traveling lifestyle more and more. Yes, I missed usual teen things as in school dances, prom, etc, and most of my socializing over the internet.  But that’s just how things are when you are only in one spot for 6 months. In trade, I got to see so many things… Such as the Mall Of America, a Tennessee Titans football game, a Minnesota Twins game, and beaches on both the East and West coast.  In fact, I’ve even gone fishing in both oceans a few times. That was just some of the fun things I got to do as a child. From an educational stand point, I got to learn about our country. I’ve toured countless battle ships, submarines and battle fields. I’ve learned a lot about our history that our school systems don’t teach. Like The Battle of Corinth in Corinth, Mississippi was the most deadly battle in our nation’s history, it was also a critical point in the civil war. I also learned that following a fierce night of British bombardment, the dawn of September 14, 1814, revealed the huge American flag still fluttering over Fort McHenry. In a burst of patriotic pride, lawyer Francis Scott […]

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