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Pike Co. Retired Teachers

Oct 8, 2008

Nice Intro… Roger Ebert

Teaching introduced me to travel. Have taken hundreds of Morgan Pike County kids around the world…

Began ‘79 Inspiration: Dr. Charles Frank A sophomore girl, detasseled, etc..Susan Hatfield… had to see Europe. Since then, hundreds… Triopia, Pittsfield, Perry, Barry, Pleasant Hill, Griggsville

Robert Benchley: IN AMERICA THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF TRAVEL: FIRST CLASS AND WITH CHILDREN.

See through fresh eyes....Went to London alone because I was tired of traveling with kids… Just wasn’t the same.

London Hotel.. “Girls knocked up”

Mark Twain: I HAVE FOUND THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT 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 Maroa

John Steinbeck: A JOURNEY IS LIKE MARRIAGE. THE CERTAIN WAY TO BE WRONG IS TO THINK YOU CONTROL IT.

---Beth K & Eric M...Bullfight

Noel Coward opinion on air travel: “HOW WAS YOUR FLIGHT?” WELL, AERONAUTICALLY IT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. SOCIALLY, IT LEFT QUITE A BIT TO BE DESIRED. …Airline rules

1. the larger you are, the further you will be seated from the aisle
2. If you are tired and need to sleep, the baby with nasal congestion will be seated directly behind you.
3. the travelers with no interest in scenery will get the window seats
4. they will have nothing but baked chicken by the time they get to you.

...Air Italia...cockpit window.

---Worst airline ever: Aeoflat..Aro-flop..landed three times each time. ……Champaign Dave...getting out of Soviet Union. --Last Trip: Ireland … Continental… Cleveland.. delayed in Newark, overnight… We never travel without Christ.

CUSTOMS: ..Unisex Toilets...concentration ..French Bidet...Rick: Sock washer...wet pantlegs ..Jodi and Susan...bathtubs.

TRULY UNFORGETABLE MOMENTS: ..Ladies in rags waiting for hours to take communion in Soviet Union. ...Seeing St. Basil’s cathedral in Red Square for the first time. ...Highest point in Kremlin: A cross. …The Whales in Alaska ..Ireland...Preacher Frank from West Virginia clearing out a bar for church ..Assisi... Two olive-skinned ladies on tour --Craig, Lucerne, Richard, communion English Music Hall Show (2 girls on the way out)

....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.

Finding, exploring, loving diversity through travel has been one of the biggest blessings of my teaching.. I’m addicted..taking 42 to Ireland, Scotland and England.

And my students have received no greater education than to know that without diversity the world doesn’t go ‘round.. it just sits there.

Forget the gas prices…get out and go somewhere this summer.

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