Until last year Ihave never been able to travel as much as I wanted.
This was purely a financial problem, of course, because when you work full time to pay the bills and don’t have a trust fund or a stock portfolio, it’s hard to take time off for a vacation.
Now that I have acquired some fair amount of wealth I have traveled the world over the last few months, and visited all the places I always wanted to see in person. For the most part it was great, but I’m happy to be home again for 2 main reasons – the toilets and the air conditioning. The designs of toilets in different countries are often strange and unsettling, but there was a profound lack of climate control almost everywhere we went. They were weird, but at least they always had toilets, unlike air conditioning which seemed to be almost unheard of in many places. Even the nicest hotels in these small towns often lacked any kind of cooling system. They all had baseboard registers for heating in the winter, but for the dog days of summer there was no relief. Even in England, which I thought was very civilized, made it hard to find accommodations with proper climate control systems. It was a big relief when my trip was over and it was time to come back to the USA, the world’s capital for climate control! We are great in a lot of things, but our nation’s commitment to heating and cooling systems makes me proud to live here.