Shangri-La Tulips in Lille

I traveled as an Army brat (the picture is from my dependent passport, 1946) until college, and spent the last part of high school in Germany. I got the "travel habit" again when my wife and I could "afford" it. And it is a habit—no plane goes by that I don't wish I were on. I don't even have to know where it's going. Once my wife and I retired from schools (she as a science teacher and I as an Assistant Principal) our travel no longer focused solely around a February school break week and three weeks in summer. So many places—so little time! We liked to rent apartments in "real people" neighborhoods, sample local life and food, wander through streets, museums, markets and parks—with time out to sit, relax and absorb. I've been a bookkeeper, pressman, reporter, typographer, teacher and school administrator... and constant activist. Before I retired (June 2015) I always said I wanted a job with travel opportunities galore! Every time I saw a fellow senior working as a flight attendant, I got to thinking... but while that's not my real path, I'm still on the road!