Home sweet home

 "If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."
 

— Will Kommen

     As summer approaches, many folk look forward to a "get-away" from their busy routines and pressures of daily living, whether cruising, booking an air flight, or choosing highway travel. 

     Someone aptly put it, who said, "When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money." What great advice!  

     

I recently returned from a road trip, on a tour bus full of happy, noisy seniors, which seemed to require large doses of patience and tolerance, along with my morning coffee. Yet, it was quite a picturesque journey with so much beauty and evidence of God's handiwork everywhere, I just had to keep alert with my eyes wide open lest I missed something. 

     
     I've heard it said that "genius" is the capacity to see 10 things, where the ordinary man sees one. The following poem says it best:

Two men were looking at the sea 

But one saw only quantity. 

The other soul was filled with awe, 

The handiwork of God was what he saw. 

And then the singing of a bird 

A noise is all the first one heard. 

The other felt uplifted all day long, 

And loved the Lord more dearly for the song. 

Eyes see when opened by His touch,

And ears unstopped can hear so much. 

— Author unknown.  

     

When travelling the highways, road signs can prove helpful in guiding us to our intended destination, and some can be quite humorous. I found a few: 

"Weeds are a pain in the Grass"; "Tom, Dick and Harry's Durn' Good Burgers"; "Bags without people don't make sense"; and the one that really impressed me — "Don't Drink and Drive, The Jamiesons lost their beloved son here."  

     

     
     However, when travelling abroad, signs written in fractured English can pose a problem as the meaning often gets lost in the translation, like the following: 

1. In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions. 
2. In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summer suit. Because is a big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation. 
3. In a Yugoslavian hotel: The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid. 
4. In an Acapulco hotel: The manager has personally passed all the water served here. 

     International Travel News. I often picture Life as a Highway, and no matter how long it is, it too will end. 

     Sometimes there are signs that we need to carefully observe as we make our journey through life. It may simply be the advice of another who has already travelled this same route, and perhaps could help us make sure we reach our right destination.      

     

By the way, "It's good to be HOME!" 

   

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." 

— Lin Yutang

— beulah