One week from now I'll be somewhere over Western Europe as the sun rises off the horizon ahead. Three months in a foreign country await: teaching Hungarian high school students, interacting with local people and integrating into society. No doubt I feel excitement at the thought of it all, but that's tempered with fear and anxiety. Three months away from my wife; three months of seeing new faces and new places.
For now, I'm focused on preparation: planning, purchasing, packing. "Should I take five pairs of dress pants or just a couple and purchase a few more when I arrive?" These questions loom today. I can imagine a time not too far in the future when they'll seem trite, yet understandably important at the time.
One thing is for sure: with a laptop and a digital camera, I'll be posting my fair share of pictures on this blog.
So, make this a regular stop of yours through the end of June and don't hesitate to leave your thoughts.
Szia!
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~G.K. Chesterton
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~G.K. Chesterton
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
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Is the dog you refer to on the masthead SABR?
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