No worries. Thanks to both of you. And, don’t be scared. You will get into the swing of things before you know it…

whoops.. don’t know what happened there.. (sorry bout the 2 posts)

Dear Sad To See,

Did you set up that user ID specifically for my benefit or do you spend your days scouring the internet for things of which you disapprove?

I mentioned that I knew and had spoken to people because you asked whether I had ever met or spoken to any of the people I “denigrate”.

Did you actually read the piece? It’s a comic observation on an ageing man driving very, very badly with a far better driver (female) sitting patiently on pillion. “Blind prejudice” against whom?

It’s also a description of one of many things that happened to us, as a family, while travelling. Nestled among cuddling baby tigers, meeting Buddhist monks, trekking Lao forests, etc.

For future reference in your commenting career, when repeating things that people say one normally puts them in quotation marks, rather than capitalising.

Have you ever visited Speak You’re Branes? I think you’d like it there.

But your right about Google Searches turning up the unexpected – I go looking for “family world travel” and “family travel experience” and this is what I get.

And they say Travel Broadens the Mind.

Since you ask, yes, I have.

I know people (gay and straight) in meaningful, longterm cross-cultural relationships (some with an age gap, too). I’ve also met plenty of men who like to pull women from poorer cultures because they find they get more bang and more submission from their buck. I’ve talked to women who are in the kind of relationship I describe, and to men who go out east to experiment with hookers. And posted about it, too.

Can’t have been what you were looking for on your Google Search, though… Struck a nerve, did I?

I wonder of the author ever bothered talking to one of these people she’s so happy to denigrate?