Another Bucket-list Item Checked Off:
Circumnavigating The Globe!
20 August 2012
By Jane Stillwater
One thing that I'd always really wanted to do was to
travel around the world, preferably at the equator, by
walking, biking, hot-air ballooning or even by covered
wagon or swimming if necessary -- I didn't care how.
"What about doing it in an airplane?" Sure. Definitely
easier on the knees.
So I did it.
First I lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
for two years to save up, and then borrowed or begged
as many frequent flyer miles as I could. And then just
did it! Another big item to check off of my bucket
list.
"So how'd it go?" you might ask. About as well as you
can expect -- considering that in 21 days I spent 55.5
hours actually sitting in an airline chair, eating
airline food and watching airline movies, and another
75 hours getting to airports, sitting around airports,
sleeping at airports and getting back from airports.
Plus going through 30 different security checks in
nine different airports as well.
When I tell people that I actually did all of that,
they just look at me and think that I made the whole
thing up. So that's why I always take photos. Nobody
believes me otherwise. And even then, still nobody
believes me. "Nah, those pictures were PhotoShopped."
No, really. I actually did do it!
"So. What did you learn?" Nothing much -- except that
everywhere that I went, people were always very
friendly and kind to me. And NOBODY I met ever
deserved to be killed.
Of all the hundreds of people I met on my travels --
perhaps even thousands -- not one of them deserved to
be blown up by a drone or irradiated by depleted
uranium or run down by tanks or attacked by
militarized police with tear gas or occupied "for
their own good" or bombed by "peacekeeping" forces or
any of that other stuff that America has now become
famous for.
And what I have discovered after circumnavigating the
entire globe, mostly at the equator, and going to or
flying over so many different countries is this: That
America used to be famous for our democracy and our
"can do" attitude and our inventiveness. But not any
more. Now America is just famous for developing its
whole new advanced unique and expensive technology for
killing people. Sigh.
So now that I've actually circumnavigated the entire
globe, do you want to know what the latest, most
exciting, most fabulous, most creative item on my
recently-updated bucket list is gonna be now? WORLD
PEACE! And I'm not the only one who has this item on
their bucket list either.
Do you?
PS: Once back home in the good old U.S.A., what was
one of the first things that I saw TV? Paul Ryan --
channeling GWB. During his recent speech at Tampa,
Ryan obviously looked and sounded just like George
Bush's clone -- the exact same insincere smile,
pseudo-populist bad acting, use of emotional
tear-jerking "patriotic" sucker-punches and shameless
making of empty promises that Ryan, like Bush, has NO
intention of keeping. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/08/ryan-launches-campaign-theme-of-lying-about-everything.html.
Dubya himself may have been banned from the Republican
convention, but his spirit -- and his disastrous
policies too -- obviously still live on in the body of
Paul Davis Ryan.
And apparently Tea Party members have been going
around saying that Ann Romney looks like a REAL First
Lady. What's that supposed to mean? That Michelle
Obama doesn't have blonde hair? Maybe not. But
Michelle does have courage, integrity, good taste and
class -- along the lines of Jackie O and Dolly
Madison. Can you even begin to imagine Michelle
allowing Mitt to "offshore" thousands of American jobs
or strap a dog to the top of a car for 12 hours?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829
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