( this will really date me)” See the U.S.A., in your Chevrolet.!” Have driven across country several times,we are so lucky to live in such a beautiful/diverse Country. There is just something about a roadtrip that is so freeing,just go where the spirit leads you.

Jill

My quote would be:

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away.”

Helene Fredrich

What came to mind is a song that I’ve always liked that I’m sure you’re familiar with. It comes to you from another Texan traveler, Mr Willie Nelson:

On the road again

Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway

We’re the best of friends

Insisting that the world keep turning our way and our way

Is on the road again

I hope all is going well in San Francisco,

Blake

Hi All,

” The world is like a classroom without walls.”

Thanks,

Grace Pangan

Attached is a picture taken of my mother at the Cabot Yerxa Museum

in Desert Hot Springs CA, with the sign that reads…

“There Is No Place,

Just Like This Place,

Anywhere Near This Place,

SO THIS must be The Place”.

Slightly funny, a bit quirky, to match this place. www.cabotsmuseum.org

Cabot Yerxa discovered the hot springs in Desert Hot Springs, (with the help of some Native Americans, of course). He spent years building an incredible structure, which is now a museum.

Brigitte

I was leading a student tour in Washington D.C. last month.

I never tire of going to the monuments and memorials . . . they remind me of our core values and their prices. I especially love one of the quotes in stone at the FDR memorial . . .

“We want an end to wars but, more than that, we want an end to the beginning of all wars”.

Susan Bolton, TD

A funny one, from the PRC in the 1980s…

My Bejing local guide asked if he could give a short overview of Chinese History on the bus ride out to the Great Wall. Having taken the (somewhat boring) ride many times, I said Thanks, that would serve as a diversion. He told me he was a History Professor, but since his English language skills were very good, the government had taken him from his classroom and mad him serve as a guide. He turned out to be a wonderful speaker and the group was spellbound. When he finished, one of the ladies in the front voiced how much everyone had enjoyed his presentation, saying it was hard for us to get a handle on Chinese History. He smiled and said even he had trouble, since the Party officials changed it so often.

How easily we dismiss that which is for the true benefit of our soul and eternal salvation for the sake of comfort

with our present beliefs and way of thinking. — unknown

Isn’t it the way we perceive things that makes them what they will be. – Moon Rider, Up With People.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life

- Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. Found at San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel, CA

Hi -

Two pretty funny questions asked of me on a San Francisco city tour:

From the top of Twin Peaks looking over the city and the bay:

Is this the Bay of Pigs?

After driving up and down of few of San Francisco’s famous hills:

Why are there so many hills?

These should “tickle a few funny bones”.

Liz Burton