For Real Toads: on the road

Much has been written, in prose, verse and song, about travel. The prompt for today at the writers' group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads is "On the Road". As I ostensibly write a travel blog (not so's you'd notice any more) you'd think all manner of eloquence would come to mind, but nothing did, except my usual doggerel.

On the Road

Sometimes we’re on the road in our car

Sometimes we’re in the air

But we’re seeing the world,

Now that we can.

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We’re seeing the world

When our health will allow,

And enjoying

As much as we can.
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The people we meet

When we’re on the road

Are much like the people at home,

But they’ve seen other things

And done other things

And know other things

We don’t know.
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So we talk and we learn

And we laugh and learn more

On far foreign shores, on the road.

Photos from our Galapagos Islands trip, the first of our world travels. Photos by Richard Schear, Kay Davies and Karina Lopez.

Giant Tortoises in the Galapagos Islands

Every now and then I have to look at our photos from the Galapagos Islands, just to remind myself we really were there. Here's a long shot of two giant tortoises resting in the shade at the Darwin Research Station. A closeup of one with its mouth open -- who would have thought such a large green animal would have such a cute pink mouth? And our guide Karina got this old fella to smile for her. The rules on the islands are definitely look-but-don't-touch, and Karina knows how to get their attention without touching them.

COMING SOON -- CHAPTER 4

Chapter 4 of An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel (coming soon to a blog near you) tells of the key ingredient the author unearthed while reviewing her past and then attempting to reconcile an unfittie's reluctance to move out of a chair, with a basketball referee's desire to swing through jungles on a rope.