December 8 – Do you know a place?

Do you know a place?
Know the place by a person?
People, not places.

USAToday posted a photo gallery of “52 places Fodor’s Travel Go List says you should visit in 2020.”

I did click through the photos.

But I have to say none of the place made my list of ‘Go To Placs fo 2020″.

It wasn’t that the list included Albania, Medellin, and Rwanda (Rwanda???).

Or that the 1st place in the USA listed was Athens, Georgia.

I have no interest in these places.

I admit I am not a traveler.

Never had a passport.

Overall, looking at this list, I don’t know any one there.

When I think of places, I think of people.

Mitch Albom wrote today in The Detroit Free Press, “Have you ever known someone by the place you always saw them? Someone so delightful, they colored your view of the city or country where you met? If so, then you know the place is not the same when the face is gone.“

Mitch writes a delightful column about, Margaret, a woman he knew in Ireland.

I hope she was real and not made up.

Mitch has done it before.

Sorry to be pithy but I remember.

As would have been said but in my college classes, his work has a suspect animus.

ANYWAY.

Family and friends.

Now I have friends who they themselves have friends and family in these exotic places.

I think that is great.

I have friends who DO love to travel and see new things or old things anew.

I think that is great.

But me?

Not a traveler.

And I don’t fell like I am missing anything.

Now if we are talking about travelling for the food.

I can understand that.

But I live Gwinnett County, Georgia.

All the world’s people have moved to Gwinnett.

The world’s food has come to me.

After getting coffee at a Guayoyo Coffee & Bakery, a Venezuelan Bakery which was next to the Indian Restaurant where we had lunch and deciding not to go across the street for Korean Chai, I thought, why do I need to travel?

Gwinnett.

All this and home of Waffle House.

Life is good.