You'll never see Gina M. McDonald standing still for very long. Two wooden masks hang above her desk, one from Fiji, an island nation in the Pacific, and the other from Ivory Coast in western Africa. Along her walls are huge, carpet-sized blankets, which also came from Africa. On her desk Friday were three bracelets she recently picked up in India. Two bronze icons of Hindu deities accompanied them.
People think travel is only for the rich and famous a lot of the times.
I didn't start my travels until I was 21 years old. Thanks to the Peace Corps, business opportunities and watching out for special deals on travel tickets, she's managed to go to destinations around the world in the past seven years. Many people in the Pottsville area might know McDonald as Gina Ricigliano from her work in radio before she was married. Her adventures abroad started after she graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1994, with a bachelor's degree in dietetics, which deals with the kinds and quantities of food needed for good health. Looking for experience, she decided to join the Peace Corps, serving from January 1995 to August 1997.