Many
of us have traveled extensively, some of us
throughout our own vast country, others to more distant, foreign places. Every
once in a while, we’ll see a piece on TV about somewhere we’ve been, and the
enjoyment is ours to experience again. “Hey, we were there – right there!” We’ll recall our rapt gazing up at Mt.
Rushmore, or the Eiffel Tower, or the Taj Mahal. We’ll recall our transpacific
tour by ship, a riverboat cruise down the Rhine, rafting on the Colorado, or a
gondola ride in Venice. We recall wandering around a maze of streets trying to
find the garage where we’d parked our car. When they say travel is broadening,
they really mean it: it expands our horizons in so many ways.
It
must be a wonderful experience for astronauts who’ve been there, to see the moon
in videos, TV, maybe in the movies. The Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and
Harrison Schmitt were riding around on the moon, the last human travelers
there, forty-five years ago, in December 1972. Don’t you wish you’d been there?
On the moon, it’s easy to remember where you parked.
Very creativee post
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