Big Boxes

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain

I firmly believe this and that is the number one reason I want to take Chance all over the world. Hell that is the number one reason I want to travel all over the world. I have a love of travel that came from traveling as a child and being part of a family that traveled all over but I continue to travel and want to satisfy that urge to travel because I don't want to be in a small box. We all live in our own boxes or bubbles and some people's are very small making them narrow minded because they just can not expand past the walls of their box. I want my box to be big so large I can't See the sides so I travel to expand my world and to ward off the prejudices that creep into your head when you are not looking.

This guy is awsome

I am talking about Rahm Emanuel. He was recently chosen as Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff. He is the first political person I have actually had lots of fun looking up their history. The guy mailed someone a dead fish. That's right he sent a dead fish to a pollster who upset him. I personally would never send a dead fish to someone but that is the kind of spunk I like to see in a politician. I have heard he is a bit of a hard ass and according to Webster that means he is a tough, demanding, or uncompromising person. Now that might not be the kind of guy I would want to be best friends with but as long as at heart he is a good guy he is exactly what we need.

I am sure that since Obama picked him he must be a good guy. As I type that I wonder how I can think that since I do not know Obama and can not say for sure that he is a good guy. I guess I just hope, and that is the catch to the whole thing we all have to put our hope in something or someone sometimes.

not so fast...

Sometimes seeing the world doesn't go as fast as one would hope. The one I am thinking of is me. This year I wanted to get remarried in Vegas and I wanted to go to Paris and maybe even work a train trip in there somewhere but I didn't get to do any of these things. In fact I did not go anywhere new this year. Ok wait that is sort of a lie even though I had been to South Carolina I had not been to Myrtle Beach and we spent ten days there in August/September so I guess that is somewhere new. Though after you have been to another country and after you have lived in South Florida for over 20 years Myrtle Beach, South Carolina doesn't pack much of a punch.
Well, I plan to do more good solid traveling next year. Why am I talking like the year is over? Because it almost is and because I don't see a way to get to any of these places in the few weeks that are left in the year.

Here is a new travel website I found that I like,l it is called Dave's Travel Corner.