Subj : Re: Growing Up
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : n2qfd
Date : Sat Aug 31 2024 02:40 pm

 pF>  to want to travel. They both enjoyed themselves, I hope my son gets the
 pF>  urge to grab a backpack, get a cheap flight and a eurail pass.

  Good for you getting them out to see something else. I was always impressed at how many Aussies I ran into on the road. Forgive me for not remembering if you were a US Citizen or not.. It seems to me here in the US we're cultivating an insular, inward looking people that are afraid of the world and it makes for poor citizens internally we well as abroad. 
  I jumped on a plane and went to Prague when I heard that I could actually afford school there. I knew a few pleasantries in Czech when I landed and the experience of being a functional illiterate in another land (not in a uniform carrying a gun) was an awakening to possibilities and potentials I never thought I had in me. On the flip side I was viewed with suspicion and derision by members of my own family upon returning. An uncle who was a DoD guy in Germany for decades gave me the advice that there will be things you want to share with them when you return and many won't want to hear it. They're happy, and just let them be. Not sure if you saw the Hobbit movies, and the scent when they make it back and are sitting in the Hobbit Tavern, (don't @ me about spoilers it's a 20 year old movie) it's a little like that if you come home to your sleepy part of where ever you live. Still I wouldn't trade that opportunity for the world. 
  I hope both of them find the urge to travel and take that step towards a more world citizen outlook! 

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