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."

The Right to Bear Arms

Right to Bear Arms - Take Off digital collage by TAS - lilboutlot

Right to Bear Arms  copyright 2008  TAS

With double entendres, I always do a double take . . . so look close, no, look closer. Hunter or Animal Rights Activist? For or Against the right to bear or (bare) arms is a double entendre tshirt made to  spur conversations with a stranger.  Oh, have a conversation with a stranger about my different point of view?  Risque!  As you travel happy - senses wide open, have a risque conversation. 

Right to Bear Arms Plum n Gray  tshirts by TAS

The Royals in HD (high definition)

The Yacht  P.O.S.H. copyright 2008   TAS

The Royals, that's Rex and Regina, know how to travel in style.  They travel P.O.S.H., superior or deluxe.  HRH Rex prefers linen to broad cloth and down to feathers.  HRH Regina loves pashmina to angora and silk to rayon.  They take off with their senses wide open.  So travel happy,   like the royals.   Those of you  into HD as in high definition, here are some for you... (latin for king and queen = REX and REGINA   Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company  reportedly stamped first class passengers' ticket with Port Out Starboard Home)  

Rex and Regina Royal - Take off Digital Collage by TAS-lilboutlot