Buckle up!

 With more than a little embarrassment I have to admit that I did not know for Istanbul was located on the map, I didn't know where Istanbul or what country Istanbul is in! I would fail a geography test probably a simple geography test if one were administered to me at this point in my life. I don't think I was ever very good at geography I didn't really understand the course or why we needed to know all the different places in geography class. Now I think I have a better concept of why people need to study things like geography more than I used to. This morning was Sunday morning of course that means getting the family together for breakfast at our local restaurant. Today's Breakfast would be a coming home breakfast for mark Anthony who came back from his journeys two days ago. That's so cool he's been gone for about 3 weeks traveling all over Europe or parts of Europe anyway. I think I have talked about this briefly in other posts about him making friends over the internet from Russia and other places in Europe and he just wanted to go meet them in person and  Mark did. He spent time in Istanbul, London even Greece. He almost went to Egypt which I think would have been totally cool if he could have seen the pyramids. I would have loved to have seen them in this life. He had a couple travel companions as I said so he wasn't alone but I think he was safe and wise has he traveled these areas. I think he now has gotten bit by this travel bug. I don't know how much more traveling he's going to do. I don't know how much he can do and then your future but he's talking about his next country to visit will be Japan. He has a brother living in Japan so he's got a place to stay or at least a point from which to venture out from and I have to worry about pesky hotel prices and hotel living and all that kind of stuff. I don't know how soon he would do such an adventure but certainly he has enough experiences now to keep him going for I think a significant amount of time. I'm sure we will be listening to these Adventures for some time now at our Sunday morning breakfasts. Interesting to note that he's even thinking of trying to develop some kind of Escape Plan if he has to leave the us or just can't tolerate living under the almost totalitarian thumbprint of the local Administration. We did not directly talk about the current political tragedy that happened over at the local University in Utah County this last week. However, the subject matter is very close at hand and we weren't really sure how to go about tapping into that stuff to talk about. I'm sure we will be visiting the topic and subject matter in the next couple of weeks as this works its way through to conclusion of what happens to the perpetrator of the assassination, his family and whatever support network he's able to drum up and there seems to be some sort of a Groundswell that will probably support him. But this also a great deal of folks that are not happy that's what he did. I'm kind of surprised that this is really being treated as significantly as it is. They are equating this assassination with that of JFK's and his brother RFK. I just don't think it's the same at all. It's really kind of hard to believe that dinky little Utah is the focal point for this National if not international incident. The magnifying glass is focusing on our state now for the next however long it will be in the news. But a Stephen King says it's time to buckle up for a rough ride..