TravelinMan
Rapscallious Curmudgeon
The wife and I just got our renewed passports and we are ready to go!
We love to travel, both overseas and in America, and have a pretty good resume of places already traveled. But, it has been almost 15 years since we have needed a passport. Our old ones were expired so we just got the new ones. The US Department of State sent along a flyer that is titled "With your U.S. passport, the world is yours!" How true! Even though we know that traveling is not what it used to be, there are still some places on our bucket list we need to get to.
In our lifetimes, I have been in 60 foreign countries and my wife has been in 15, so I guess one could say we are travelers. The thrill of visiting another spot on the globe and experiencing the local culture gives one a certain perspective that cannot be enjoyed by those who do not travel. I'm not saying that we are any better than anyone else, only that we enjoy seeing the other side of the coin. When we watch the world news, we may have a little better perspective of events unfolding because, to some extent, we may have been there and done that (in a manner of speaking). It does often help us to understand why cultures do what they do, which may seem mysterious to those American who don't go overseas. To watch Yellow Vests protest in Paris, observe Gypsies in Rome, try to carry on a conversation with a Finn in Helsinki, see a Nazi concentration camp in Czech Republic and a whole host of other things makes a lot more sense. I like to think it helps us be better world citizens in some way.
Don't get me wrong, we still LOVE traveling in the good ole USA with plenty more places to visit and experience. But just holding that grand old US Department of State Passport gives us an almost indescribable feeling. We can feel the world at our finger tips and taste it on our lips!
If you don't have anything better to do, click here https://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Travelin---Man/ to read about our last overseas trip in 2005.
Thanks for reading this!
We love to travel, both overseas and in America, and have a pretty good resume of places already traveled. But, it has been almost 15 years since we have needed a passport. Our old ones were expired so we just got the new ones. The US Department of State sent along a flyer that is titled "With your U.S. passport, the world is yours!" How true! Even though we know that traveling is not what it used to be, there are still some places on our bucket list we need to get to.
In our lifetimes, I have been in 60 foreign countries and my wife has been in 15, so I guess one could say we are travelers. The thrill of visiting another spot on the globe and experiencing the local culture gives one a certain perspective that cannot be enjoyed by those who do not travel. I'm not saying that we are any better than anyone else, only that we enjoy seeing the other side of the coin. When we watch the world news, we may have a little better perspective of events unfolding because, to some extent, we may have been there and done that (in a manner of speaking). It does often help us to understand why cultures do what they do, which may seem mysterious to those American who don't go overseas. To watch Yellow Vests protest in Paris, observe Gypsies in Rome, try to carry on a conversation with a Finn in Helsinki, see a Nazi concentration camp in Czech Republic and a whole host of other things makes a lot more sense. I like to think it helps us be better world citizens in some way.
Don't get me wrong, we still LOVE traveling in the good ole USA with plenty more places to visit and experience. But just holding that grand old US Department of State Passport gives us an almost indescribable feeling. We can feel the world at our finger tips and taste it on our lips!
If you don't have anything better to do, click here https://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Travelin---Man/ to read about our last overseas trip in 2005.
Thanks for reading this!