London: Girls.. knocked up
Began ‘79 Inspiration: Girl named Susan Hatfield (PAC: Bumgarner)
. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – HYPERLINK "http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html" Mark Twain
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 (Audrey McLain’s uncle) ... passport Me: urinal, cross -----------------2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm" St. Augustine 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.
--- Every time I travel, my attitude is changed. The kids who get off the plane are never the same ones who got on. You can never watch the news on TV again without thinking differently.
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – HYPERLINK "http://www.mayaangelou.com/ShortBio.html" Maya Angelou