Travel

People come around selling tickets for prizes to benefit this or that school activity or person in need; it’s like a tax for showing up to work. It really sucks because I don’t have kids so I cannot retaliate in kind.

But the option came up for a round-trip plane ticket to anywhere in the world. I didn’t win, but thinking about my first instinct would be to see if I could sell it or cash it in.

There are places I wouldn’t mind visiting if it wasn’t for politics. For instance, I would like to see the Great Pyramids, but with the situation there so unsettled I am not really interested.

I have travelled extensively around Europe, and while I wouldn’t mind going back again, the thought of sixteen hours on a plane one-way is a solid deterrent. Ditto for going to former Iron Curtain nations.

For these reasons I am interested in virtual life systems, because having tried them I see tremendous opportunities to get a good look at historic spots without the hassles of actual travel, dealing with the Third World, encountering the French, or spending far too much time on an airplane eyeballing people who look like terrorists (but who are probably just mass murderers on vacation).

Some might call me a hermit, but my response is that no one travels hundreds of miles to seek wisdom from an extrovert.