Observations While Traveling Solo.
Much—actually most—of my traveling has been done solo. I love everything about traveling. My wife not so much. OK, I’m not all that fond of the flying part, but I thoroughly enjoy long-distance train tavel and I love classy old hotels . . . for example the Royal York in Toronto or the Palmer House in Chicago.
I take its of notes when I travel and I have more than two dozen notebooks here in my little office, all partly filled with scribblings from trips going back 10-15 years. Here are several pages from a notebook dated late Fall of 2009, scribbled while I was waiting for a train in the Main Hall of Chicago’s Union Station:
- Once we hit 40 or so, men all pretty much look alike; only the shapes vary. And the haircuts.
- An airline pilot hurries past. It’s not the uniform that makes him look so dashing, it’s the cap!
- Some women simply cannot manage high heels.
- Veteran travelers walk briskly, pulling small wheeled bags; rookies struggle with heavy oversized luggage.
- Western boots look absolutely fabulous on some women; ridiculous on others.
- How does a Jewish man prevent his yarmulke from slipping off?
- What prompts an overweight women in her 60s to get a tattoo of Tweety Bird on her bicep??
What? You were expecting something profound??
I don’t know why but I just love this!