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[Mugwump]

Wow...you have been busy....you'll have lots of fun with 'Ducky'...there's still a lot to see in the US/Canada and you're in a prime location....We've got friends that traveled all the Civil War battle grounds one year..........they loved it....the had an Airstream....

Civil War... We had so much of that drummed into us in school when we were kids!  It used to bore me.  Why would anyone want to tour battlefields with so much history of death and destruction?  As I've aged I realize that it's the way of power and greed.  Unfortunate, in my opinion, for mankind in general. But we watch it daily in our aquaria, the struggle for dominance...the right to breed...the drive to acquire enough geography to insure that the progeny have enough to survive and perpetuate the species.

There's a lot of history surrounding those sites, Ron. It's not all about blood and guts. The plus side is all that you get to see along the way.    Philosophies need to be set aside when you travel; or you'll miss so many things to discover.

[Ron Sower]

Wow...you have been busy....you'll have lots of fun with 'Ducky'...there's still a lot to see in the US/Canada and you're in a prime location....We've got friends that traveled all the Civil War battle grounds one year..........they loved it....the had an Airstream....

Civil War... We had so much of that drummed into us in school when we were kids!  It used to bore me.  Why would anyone want to tour battlefields with so much history of death and destruction?  As I've aged I realize that it's the way of power and greed.  Unfortunate, in my opinion, for mankind in general. But we watch it daily in our aquaria, the struggle for dominance...the right to breed...the drive to acquire enough geography to insure that the progeny have enough to survive and perpetuate the species.

There's a lot of history surrounding those sites, Ron. It's not all about blood and guts. The plus side is all that you get to see along the way.    Philosophies need to be set aside when you travel; or you'll miss so many things to discover.

Exactly, pal! And that's why I like to travel.

A few years back we went to the Alamo. First visit.  I was intrigued at how small it actually was. I mourned for our heroes, too. Please, don't any of you think I don't appreciate what the blood on the battlegrounds have done for our country and what freedoms we have.

On our trip to San Antonio is where I discovered Texas Holey Rock growing in our cousins' front yard and brought a bunch of it back to my Mbuna tank!