Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.