People often ask me, “What do you do?” I used to flippantly tell them I enjoy travel, family, friends, wine, reading, theater, the beach, etc. but I always knew that they mean, what do you do for a living? When I tell them I’m retired, they inevitably say, “You’re very young for that.” The truth is I’m about the only non-governmental worker you’ll ever meet who retired at 50, but the reality is that I’m not really retired at all. Continue reading
Automobiles, Planes, Trains, and Feet
The saga of an overseas journey
I’m kind of amazed in this day and age that overseas travel is still in many ways such a nightmare. In my youthful imagination, by now we would be flying hypersonic aircraft across the great oceans of the world in mere minutes, and arrive at our destinations relaxed and refreshed after a brief transfer aboard a monorail slung high above the tree tops, like some ersatz Disney fantasy. The reality, of course, is much different, even when you’re going between continents as technologically advanced as North America and Europe.
Here is a typical log from a trip that I just took, and it shows that, even when, as I did, you spare no expense in the undertaking, modern travel is about as much fun as a jalapeño enema….still an exhausting process that can sap your mind, body, and soul of energy before your vacation even begins. And it ain’t easy on the wallet, either.
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Roads Less Traveled 
Hope and Change, 2016
2015: It’s all over but the crying now, and it wasn’t a good year at all. It brought us more unemployment, more war, more illegal immigration, more terrorism, and less beauty and sanity than any year I can remember since Tricky Dick darkened the doorway to the White House and double-knit leisure suits were worn in the discos of Funkytowns across our great, but yet, somehow…tasteless nation. So with that, I’m hoping for a better 2016! I therefore present my wish list for the coming year:
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