Trippin' with Susan Straley

 Hello there, you folks back in the States and Canada or wherever else you are reading this.   When we left, our bike group was getting smaller as the snowbirds and the travelers departed.  Florida was getting hotter. Here in Amsterdam, the day started out grey but dry. I didn't get more than an hour of sleep on our flight over night to Amsterdam from Tampa. The airplane seats don't lay back like they used to, and they slump.  That might feel good for someone that slumps, but I try not to.  I could not get comfortable.   Then we spent the day we landed walking around Amsterdam.  I thought I would really sleep well in our cozy motel room.  And I did for about four hours.  Then, even though I was exhausted, I just could not sleep any more. In the morning I was groggy and foggy.   We had reservations to go to three museums.   We had a wonderful huge breakfast at the Hotel buffet and several cups of coffee.  We ...

It's orange in Utah, and green and grey and white... But before we go there, I am curious what you are reading these days, if anything. About a year ago, (Or is it two?) I bought a book about the universe by Neal DeGrasse Tyson.   He is known for bringing these complex topics of the universe down to the layman's level.  Even so, I find the topics and the concepts so mind-blowing that I just can't get my tiny brain to wrap around them and absorb them.  It feels like for a flash of a fraction of a second I grasp what he is writing and then it is gone.  It is like, "Wow! That's cool," but then I couldn't tell you (or my conscious self couldn't recall) what it was that I comprehended for a fraction of a second. I am telling you this because a couple days ago in a gift shop I found a children's book about the stars and I bought it for me.  Maybe this will be more my speed. And recently at a gift shop I bought a book about flies.   The thought of it giv...