pfeiffer@uwvax.UUCP (Phil Pfeiffer) (02/23/86)
Earlier this week I commented on a posting about seeing the USA. I received the following rejoinder this morning: --- [ My comments: ] --- >> Just looking at your itinerary .... are you so hooked on a frantic lifestyle >> that you need to do the whole USA at once for the challenge of it? Or, are >> you afraid of missing something if you don't? >> Choose four, maybe five, six, places to investigate in-depth. Get travel >> guides from the AAA and/or the library. Do less rushing around - you'll >> see a lot more, and memories of sitting in a car won't predominate afterward. --- [ Response: ] --- >Phil, >I think you came down on this young chap pretty hard. My wife and I started >traveling by trying to see it all. Now we have given all the places that >captured a place in our imagination a once over and are starting to take >in-depth trips to the places which were our favorites. This also is in keeping >with our changing lifestyles, since we are older and less apt to sleep on the >ground so we can hit the road early and put in another 700 miles. My apologies to the poster from Cornell if the my remarks seemed too strong nasty. I do have strong feelings on this subject, however, having made such mistakes as driving 4400 miles in 17 days on our honeymoon .... "Wherever you go, there you are." -- B. Banzai "Wherever you go, there you are." -- Carl Franz (BTW, I recommend Carl Franz's _The People's Guide to Mexico_ to anyone who enjoys travel and who has thought at all about going to Mexico.) -- -- Phil Pfeiffer ...!{harvard,ihnp4,seismo,topaz}!uwvax!pfeiffer (608) 263-7308