[FRIAM] I am not Unique

[Frank Wimberly]

Thanks, Russ.  I posted that because I've been bugging certain Friam
attendees about why they travel so much.  I say there's no place that I'd
rather be than Santa Fe so I tend to stay here.

It's not that I haven't traveled.  I remember being moved when I stood at
the place where Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral; there
was nobody else there at that moment.  I was amused that the waiters in
hotels in London would reply, "Thank you very much, sir" when I thanked
them.  I was being a tourist then.

In the mid-nineties my wife and I traveled to Mexico several times.  I like
Mexicans and they like speaking Spanish to Gringos.  Some of those trips
were for the purpose of cultivating relationships to help with our wish to
adopt a Mexican child.  I believe that in Mexico more than in some other
places whom you know affects what you can do.  There were 90 adoptions by
US couples in Mexico that year (1997) while there were several thousand in
each of Russia and China.  I didn't feel like a tourist during those trips.

Our daughter Flor, her husband and kids are all in our house right now.
They live in Santa Fe near the Airport.

Frank
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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023, 4:49 PM Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frank, Thanks for the link.
>
> Agnes Callard, the author of the article, sneers at tourists who visit
> Paris in order to visit the Louvre in order to see the Mona Lisa (and then
> spend 45 seconds looking at it)--because that's what one does in Paris. But
> presumably, Callard would find it perfectly acceptable to visit Paris in
> order to visit the Louvre in order to see the Mona Lisa, and then spend
> hours examining Da Vinci's brush strokes.
>
> What's the difference between these two kinds of activities? Callard
> quotes Emerson, who is not critical of "a person who travels when his
> 'necessities' or 'duties' demand it. Nor does Emerson object to traversing
> great distances 'for the purpose of art, of study, and benevolence,'” as in
> the case of the student of DaVinci's painting technique. Here's a clue.
> Callard defines "tourism" as the kind of travel that aims at the
> interesting—and, if Emerson and company are right, misses."
>
> In other words, one will not find "the interesting" by going in search of
> it. The same goes for happiness. One will not find happiness by going in
> search of it. These are both consequences of other activities and make no
> sense as stand-alone goals.
>
> -- Russ Abbott
> Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
> California State University, Los Angeles
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 2:13 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
>>
>> ---
>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>
>> 505 670-9918
>> Santa Fe, NM
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