While I am waiting on a computer to upload new photos to my blog entries pending in my draft box, I thought I would share this quote. It seems quite relevant: “...That's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” -Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe Even after eight months, everything in this world, from the food to the building structures, is new and completely unfamiliar. I am slowly learning words in this world's language. Accordi...
"..that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned.. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”