belated vacation stuff

On the way home from Georgia, I met another interesting person on the plane. She lives in Chino Hills, and was as different from me as I can imagine, but we really hit it off. She is a rather large, attractive black Baptist lady from the midwest originally. We talked about race and the Obama campaign and lots of other things. Though she was younger than me, I think, she has been retired for some time and travels all over the world. Travel does those things for a person. You talk to people you would probably ignore in your ordinary life. Of course in my ordinary life in the classroom, I talk to all kinds of people all of the time. But on the street, probably not, and I learned lessons the hard way in Philadelphia about talking to people on public transportation! Planes are an exception to this rule, but buses aren't. Remind me to tell you about the time R and I took a Greyhound bus across the country!