Back to something Xara said on page 1 >We went to the next town over to go to a mall because lots of the kids had never been 10 miles from home.<

It sad isn't it? but don't think it is just because the town was isolated. I live inside the NYC limits, but at the very edge.. (NYC covers alot of geography!) I always went "downtown", and my kids always came to center city for theater and museums. by the time she was 16, my daughter felt very comfortable heading to Manhattan by herself, (15 miles, what about 25 kilometers) but she had school friends who had never been to Manhattan. They had never left Long Island, except for a school trip to Pennsylvania!

I find it hard to understand such behaviour. I have wanderlust, and i think about selling my house, quitting my job, and just heading off to where ever the road takes me! (and then I shudder, and think--How Could You!) one day wanderlust will win. I don't think there is anyplace better, but many places are different.



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