Scott Co. Extension
June 97
Roger Ebert
Summer is the time to think of traveling, seeing exotic and fascinating sights. Winter is no good for travel. Travel: Boston S’field plane
Began ‘79 Inspiration: Dr. Charles Frank A sophomore girl, detasseled, etc.. had to see Europe. Since then, hundreds… including some from Scott County… Mrs. McNeeley
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.
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)
John Stenbeck: 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.
...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 … Cleveland.. delayed in Newark, overnight…
CUSTOMS: ..Unisex Toilets...concentration ..French Bidet...Rick: Sock washer...wet pantlegs ..Jodi and Susan...bathtubs. ..Greatest shock: “What time would you like your girls knocked up?”
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. ..Sadness of Finnish bus driver ..Ireland...Preacher Frank from West Virginia clearing out a bar for church ..Assisi...Sinclair Lewis: HE WHO HAS SEEN ONE CATHEDRAL TEN TIMES HAS SEEN SOMETHING; HE WAS HAS SEEN TEN CATHEDRALS ONCE HAS SEEN BUT LITTLE; AND HE WAS HAS SPENT HALF AN HOUR IN EACH OF A HUNDRED CATHEDRALS HAS SEEN NOTHING AT ALL. Two olive-skinned ladies on tour --The Alps.....Thomas Gray in 1739 on viewing the Alps: THERE ARE CERTAIN SCENES THAT WOULD AWE AN ATHEIST INTO BELIEF, WITHOUT THE HELP OF ANY OTHER ARGUMENT> --Craig, Lucerne, Richard, communion Richard: Les Miz, Miss Saigon, English Music Hall (Me: writing V’Ville 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.
I wish you many happy travels this summer and in the future. It is truly an incurable disease. John Steinbeck: WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG AND THE URGE TO BE SOMEPLACE WAS ON ME, I WAS ASSURED BY MATURE PEOPLE THAT MAUTRITY WOULD CURE THIS ITCH. WHEN YEARS DESCRIBED ME AS MATURE, THE REMEDY PRESCRIBED WAS MIDDLE AGE. IN MIDDLE AGE I WAS ASSURED THAT GREATER AGE WOULD CALM MY FEVER AND NOW THAT I AM FIFTY-EIGHT PERHAPS SENILITY WILL DO THE JOB. NOTHING HAS WORKED...IN OTHER WORDS, I DONT IMPROVE, IN FURTHER WORDS, ONCE A BUM ALWAYS A BUM. I FEAR THE DISEASE IS INCURABLE.