Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 28, 2017

Reading a book about someone that moved to Florida is not quite the same.

If one travels to a place where only the weather is different, nothing much is learned about the people, but that lets one concentrate on learning a good deal about the place. Of course, in any country not the US, both the people and the place offer great education.

Supposedly Twain said: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Doesn’t work with everybody, but many travelers return with new perspectives, and we are the better for it.

Your kid reading Hiaasen books with one word titles is OK. If one brings home a two-word title Hiaasen, you better read it first. Those people are NOT like you! Fun, weird, but not like you (hopefully).

“Are you really traveling”…if you go someplace else?

I think Caulfield should look up the word “travel.”

No matter where you go, there you are.

Just travel far enough to where you no longer understand the language.

“There is no frigate like a book/to take us miles away…” said Emily Dickinson, as Caulfield knows. Nice shout out to Carl Hiaasen’s books for kids, too.

A great author and a lot of imagination can take you many places.

Florida is a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there

Roddy McDowell’s astronaut character found out that “People are the Same All Over”

I don’t get “vice versa” in this case.

I don’t need to travel; I just want to be waaaarrrrmmm!

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Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying travel is better than escaping, or vice versa, or that they’re necessarily that different from each other.

But I will say that Carl Hiaasen IS better than most writers, and different from even more. Or vice versa.

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