Travel

Initially, I traveled to Germany because Uncle Sam

Had a ship waiting and paid all my expenses. I did

Learn how to travel at an early age. I found out that

The old buildings and quaint scenes were all neat,

But what I enjoyed most were the people I would

Meet. Later in life, I visited Italy and Greece, and

The same interest applied, watching people in far

Away places and observing how they lived. I ate

Pasta with the Italians in Rome; I ate lamb with the

Greeks in Athens; and I will never forget the schnit-

zel and beer in Frankfurt with the Germans. It was

Then I began to think a little farther out of the box.

There is a whole magnificent solar system out there,

And surrounding that, the Milky Way, and still far-

ther yet, an entire cosmos I will never reach, should

I live to be a thousand years. Oh well, it’s all too much

When you think about the scope of universal possibi-

lities. I was awestruck the first time I went down the

Gangway in Bremerhaven and first set foot on earthly
Foreign shores. I can still smell the sizzling bratwurst
Wafting in the air.

Chris Hanch  9-19-15