Steve and Judy's Travels!

  Back at the ranch.   The house is fine and dry.  The park across the street is a little stressed.   After being the bottom of a lake bed for a few weeks.  

  Out driving around checking out state parks we haven’t been to yet,   September 2018 trip map   and at Inks Lake, we see this bus parked in the campground.   We don’t often see motorhomes with dragons and koi painted on the sides.   So we stopped, knocked on the door, and surprised our friends Jim and Wendy.   Life on the road and the surprises it brings!  

  Of course Trump mocks the testimony of a sexual assault survivor.  That’s what he does.   But what of the clapping cheering supporters at his rally while he does it?  What to make of them?  A whole room full of …..    I can’t come up with an appropriate word to describe them; them that would clap and cheer while a woman suffering from abuse is abused again.    

  RV Parks, resorts, state parks, parking lots.  But this was a first.   We were inside a box (our motorhome), inside a box (a shop).  Kind of like a set of Russian dolls.  We spent the night there.   The air conditioners on our roof had reached the end of their useful life.  (They’ve been used a lot since 2005, and besides, they spent about ten winters parked in the salt air on the beach.  That led to some serious corrosion on the aluminum fins.)  We’re getting new ones on.  They should be good for another fifteen years or so.  

  That being a Globalist would be a bad thing.   I thought that with advances in technology, travel, and communication; and developing understanding of issues that are truly global in nature, that we would naturally gravitate to a broader view, fostering broader understanding and cooperation.  Now I find the term “Globalist” used as an epithet.  In today’s nativist consciousness of “us versus them”, a globalist is a very bad person.   I’m a bad person.  I don’t think our world-view should revolve around winning and preventing other people from doing better.  Not every transaction has to be based on winning.  Sometimes we should give something up or do what we can for someone else, just because it’s the right thing to do and we have the means.   If everyone does better, we all do better.  If all we want is to win, and all the people we’re trying to prevent from winning want is to win, we might push back and forth, but none of us really get anywhere.