The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ~ Augustine of Hippo

Being able to take a trip to a totally different culture is a gift. I appreciate being a guest in a foreign land. It makes the world seem smaller and I appreciate what unites us as fellow habitants of this planet. It is a gift to experience the kindness and patience of residents when we stumble with the language, directions, or the mass transit. We return the kindness any chance we can to those visiting the US.

In this image we were enjoying being observers from a streetside table. We had noticed all types of bikers in Amsterdam but we were charmed with this pair of what appears to be a father and daughter heading out somewhere.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's life. ~ Mark Twain

Peace.