Wed Apr 16, 6:17 PM ET

This photo released by Marcia Walker shows Marcia Walker, right, and her daughter Lexine are shown at the Forbidden City in Beijing, China on Feb. 15, 2008. For years, women have watched their men take fishing and hunting trips or golfing excursions. They've watched their kids travel to places as faraway as Antarctica while they footed the bill. But now women are saying, ''it's my turn,'' says women's travel expert Marybeth Bond, and they are traveling like never before. (AP Photo/Marcia Walker)

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