polly: I admire you, a defender of public education, trainer and lover of dogs and your husband, he helps; the only reason I have not responded to your trip talk inquiries is that, they trigger field trip memories, D.C., Nashville, and supervising fifty teenagers is traumatic. I've come close to losing a few kids, four they were hiking the wrong path toward the biggest trees in the park, would have come out on Appalachian Trail, bus driver was funny, said his bus was going to be on channel ten news out of Knoxville.

Other time was in D.C. Lost a kid near Ford's theater, had some boys go jogging around the block, then widen out one, found the dang crazy kid, and I know their parents will miss them soooo, brought him back, anyway;

I don't fly much, but if they lost my clothes, I hope I'm on a nude beach in France maybe, they don't like us as much as they used to, and I can't speak French, but, okay, naked on the beach in France, still got my wallet.