Ahhh. Autumn.
The crispness of the air. The bright colors. The gentle nip of the wind.
It makes you want to go outside and take a deep breath, inhaling all the freshness of this unique season.
Do that here and you'll choke on the chafe and the dirt.
Yes, you guessed it. It's harvest season again. For those who have friends and family in the buisness, you will also know that harvest is late this year. Usually we are just winding down. This year, we have barely begun.
And who do we have to thank for all of this? Quite frankly the weather.
Yes we need rain. Yes, after enduring years of stifling drought, we begged for it. But will the entity in charge of dispensing the weather exercize a little moderation please. It't the running question whether we should combine the wheat or build an ark!
Speaking of arks, I would like to add Comet Cafe to the growing list of support behind the dreadful flooding in New Orleans. I ask my patrons to do whatever is within thier means to aid these couagous people. We are behind you...even when your President is not.
I would also like to take this oppertunity to applaud Wal-Mart, who beat it's own goverment when it came to supplying aid and supplies to the devistated areas.
And for thoose who are growling at high gas prices spiked by the flood....please suck it up. That may sound insensitive but look at it this way. You could bhave your home demolished and be living on the street without food, water or medical aid. Yes, the prices are insane but it could be worse.
In lighter news, I think Stephanies Pentacosta College has opened it's doors. Congrats.
Also, I got a call from Katimavick. They said UI shall recieve my marching orders sometime in October. This is so exciting! However, people who will remain nameless have been sending me 'inspirational' quotes on travel. Here are my favorites:
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -- Lao Tzu (Melissa adds "...But so does falling down a flight of stairs")
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen Keller
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." –- Henry Miller
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." –- John Steinbeck
"In America, there are two classes of travel: First class, and with children." -- Robert Benchley
"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel." -- Will Kommen
"Long voyages, great lies." – Italian proverb
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." -- Lao Tzu (Where does one end up when one does not reach thier desired destination? Japan? Boria Boria? The moon?)
"He who would travel happily must travel light." -- Antoine de St. Exupery (I must get someone to explain to me exactly how this is done.)
"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey." -- Fitzhugh Mullan
"No matter where you go, there you are." – unknown
"The journey not the arrival matters." -- T. S. Eliot (Cheezy, yet true.)
"He travels fastest who travels alone." -- proverb
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." -- St. Augustine
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." — Martin Buber
"To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." —Freya Stark
"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey." — Pat Conroy
"Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." — Lawrence Block
"Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged." — Howard Gardner
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. ~Regina NadelsonEuropean Travel & Life-->
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ~Ray Bradbury
Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye. ~Terry Hanson
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ~Mark Twain

And finally...
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Have a good day and peace out!
Mel