TRAVEL HAPPY

shoot lots of shots - travel photos

CARBON COPY - Take off- digital collage by TAS - lilboutlot

 overboard/carbon copy copyright 2008  TAS

Never thought a photo of a wounded Vietnamese albino rabbit,  a morning sky over Angkor Wat, along with the antlers of a deer that hung on a wall of a New Zealand tavern, would be the heros of  my artwork on tshirts, posts and keds shoes. My advice:   shoot lots of shots  as you take off and travel happy.   

 

a one up conversion - "why, we even milk our raccoons!"

raccoon cheese  copyright 2009 TAS mania

After three weeks on the sparsely traveled roads of  New Zealand,  the "one up" conversation begins.  "What do you mean you don't milk your sheep?  You got like  40 million sheep and only four million people. We Americans even milk our raccoons."  

• Let's back up a bit to the fact or folklore gathering conversation.   

While traveling in Thailand with a group of northern Europeans, we had a conversation about  indigenous animals.   I found some Europeans, don't know what a raccoon is.  I searched the internet and unearthed a source, reporting raccoons in Germany as early as 1934 with an ensuing migration of raccoons to neighboring countries over the last 75 years.    But my  poll  data of n= 7 says, they generally don't know what a raccoon is or what it looks like.  Now pay attention here, this is where the opportunity comes.

• I committed that  little tidbit to memory.  It's the "one up" material, the "amo" to use, when I meet a fellow traveler.  You know the one that shows up as the trip "know it all."