READING and WANDERLUST..

I really believe that all the reading I did when I was young is what gave me the urge to travel. Even in my pre-teens and my teens I yearned to see all those places far away that I read about. I read the Odyssey and the Iliad and their travels and adventures when I was very young. When you live in a small town and read books about those faraway places that exist only on a map you begin to see that your city is but a mere dot on a globe. So much more to be seen.



Incidentally, when I was in the sixth grade at Irving grade school, they had a carnival event one Halloween evening. Each room had something special to offer and my home room teacher was the ‘palm reader’ and ‘psychic’. There were me and my two buddies together and when she read my palm she ‘seriously’ told me that I “would do a lot of traveling in my life”. We all laughed and went on but I always remembered that moment as I moved through life because I really did do a lot of traveling. In fact, I would have surely been drafted into the Army when I turned 18, which is why I joined the Navy when I was 17 to “See the world”, as they said. Well, I haven’t seen the world but more of it than a lot of people have. However, not enough for my thirst.