Monday, July 11, 2011

The Grand Tour

   Part of every young persons education is The Grand Tour. They set sail or fly to The Continent. There are vists to The Uffizi in Florence , The Louvre, The Acropolis, The Vatican, as well as pleasure spots such as Monte Carlo and Capri. It helps to have a fabulously wealthy auntie to foot the bills. It takes about a year.
   There is also for American youth, an additional grand tour. It consists of a road trip straight to Miami, west to New Orleans, south to Nuevo Laredo, returning north via Nashville to visit Tootsies's Orchid Lounge, the Kentucky Derby and a stop in Chicago to hit Buddy Guy's Blues Club, then straight home. It takes about a week and half.
   Travel expands the mind. Don't deprive your children such great opportunities. If you don't have the rich relative, help them get a crappy car on the road, loan them a few hundred bucks, say a little prayer and ask them to pick up some fireworks for you on the way home.

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