When I was young, I took a trip to West Germany with my parents, as my father was giving a paper at the IHC in Hamburg. One of the side trips available was to go to a beach between East Germany and the Danish peninsula, so we got to see all of the tanks and barbed wire that was typical of the Soviet Bloc in the early eighties. Later, as an HS graduate, but before college, a friend and I went to Northern Ireland. This, of course, was during the Troubles.
All of this is to say that as a young man I developed a taste for going to places where history was in process, so to speak. Now, as a man in his fifties, I tend to avoid things like that, no matter how beautiful you make it sound. And beautiful it sounds. Good, or bad, I do not know.
When I was young, I took a trip to West Germany with my parents, as my father was giving a paper at the IHC in Hamburg. One of the side trips available was to go to a beach between East Germany and the Danish peninsula, so we got to see all of the tanks and barbed wire that was typical of the Soviet Bloc in the early eighties. Later, as an HS graduate, but before college, a friend and I went to Northern Ireland. This, of course, was during the Troubles.
All of this is to say that as a young man I developed a taste for going to places where history was in process, so to speak. Now, as a man in his fifties, I tend to avoid things like that, no matter how beautiful you make it sound. And beautiful it sounds. Good, or bad, I do not know.
Good to see your writing JR.
-Aaron David.