Bluffs Reunion..travel
I was going to give a speech on how to grow old gracefully, but I see that most of you have beat me to it.. Instead..it’s summer… time to get out and go… Travel.
London: Girls.. knocked up
Began ‘79 Inspiration: Girl named Susan Hatfield
Robert Benchley: IN AMERICA THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF TRAVEL: FIRST CLASS AND WITH CHILDREN.
See through fresh eyes....Went to London alone..........
Mark Twain: I HAVE FOUND THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OTU WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM. ---Beardstown Ladies...King’s Cross...Sydney Australia
---MUST BE SENSITIVE TO PARENTS....Tahiti, Jeremy, Paul Gogan
(I don’t tell these stories until the group returns)
---Beth K & Eric M...Bullfight
...Air Italia...cockpit window. ---Worst airline ever: Aeoflat..Aro-flop..landed three times each time. Champaign Dave...getting out of Soviet Union. Ken Rhoads (... passport Me: urinal, cross
CUSTOMS: ..Unisex Toilets...concentration ..French Bidet...Rick: Sock washer...wet pantlegs ..Jodi and Susan...bathtubs.
TRULY UNFORGETABLE MOMENTS: --Craig, Lucerne, Richard, communion Richard: Les Miz, Miss Saigon, English Music Hall (Me: writing V’Ville show) (2 girls on the way out) ..Ladies in rags waiting for hours to take communion in Soviet Union. ...Seeing St. Basil’s cathedral in Red Square for the first time.
..Ireland...Preacher Frank from West Virginia clearing out a bar for church ..Assisi... Two olive-skinned ladies on tour
....FINALLY: The story I never tell if any future travelers in the audience. Part of it was printed in USA TODAY last year..Paris-Madrid train.
--- I hope that your retirement plans include traveling…a lot of traveling. If I could give one prescription for world peace, it would be required travel of every young person once they graduate…they’ll never stop.