Dear Loyal Reader(s),
Although I am considered (by myself) to be an International Man of Mystery (IMM)...I don't actually like to leave the United States of America. I find that America (and the rule of law) is like a warm blanket on a cool Saturday morning, why not just stay in bed ten minutes longer? Well, my ten minutes is up.
I have actually never left the country on my own dime (and this time is no different). As there are places in my own country I have yet to visit, I don't see the point. I am not against OCONUS travel, I simply choose not to. Oh, and I hate to fly, and there is no bacon on planes.
There are reasons for Americans to travel the world. I recently read David McCullough's John Adams. Great book, great man. The risks he took to create the world I live in, were amazing, and traveling across the ocean, and across Europe, were among them.
Yesterday, we learned that the CIA thwarted another plot to blow up an airliner inbound to the United States. It really isn't 'another' plot, it is the same one, ever since (or before) the Bojinka Plot, they have endeavoured. The FBI is now working to confirm that the bomb, was yet another, designed or built direclty by Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. Luckily, Americans outside our borders once again protected our lives and our freedoms.
I will be gone for a while, outside of my warm blanket, and away from a computer that I can post, blog, or browse freely from. Luckily, I will be traveling with some friends. But unfortunately, my work has nothing to do with thwarting plots, or tracking down bad guys...but I will be able to punch my IMM card again.
Maybe, if you're lucky, I will pick you up something from the ash heap of history...
До скорой встречи!
5 comments:
The Race household will be lonely without you!!
I sincerely recommend that if you are traveling to Россия that you buy a book to help you with the language. Dermo: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used by Edward Topol. It helped me swim through the rocks and shoals of the local color. And it would also be helpful in the US if you wanted to better understand Русские because the culture is reflective of the language.
Pip-pip, chin up and all that, госпожа Bannonova. He'll be back before you know it.
I feel the same way about world travel. There's too much to see here. I would also like to help our own tourist economy. BUT, I love to fly.
Hope your arms don't hurt when you land. A postcard would be nice. Praying non stop till you are back on US soil. PS I hope you packed your own parachute.
Paratroopers are good to the last drop...
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