Posted by
JP on Monday, June 30, 2008 9:32:06 AM
by Burt
Prelutsky [scriptwriter]
There
are, as I see it, two kinds of people. There are those who love to
travel, people who would sooner let their drivers licenses lapse than
their passports, and then there’s me.
When
I was younger, it was usually writing assignments that forced me to
pack my suitcase. Now, between those airport security lines that
remind me of the endless serpentines at Disneyland and airplane seats
that seem to have been designed for the transporting of sardines, long
distance travel has lost whatever small allure it ever had.
In
fact, of all the trips I have taken in my life, trips that included
such destinations as Japan, Yugoslavia, Brazil and Spain, the most
memorable one took place about 20 years ago. The locale was Oxford,
Nebraska. The purpose was to meet my in-laws for the first time. [more]