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A reason to live and to travel...

I have been married for 25 short, glorious years to my beloved companion.
We have been so lucky to know each other during these last two and a half decades. It has made life wonderful!

So what has love got to do with it?
Everything!

Love is not just a story.
It transcends ambition, money, health, even fun and games.

It provides a cosmic infusion of
double power & strength;
mutual sanctuary in trouble;
loyalty and suppport under fire;
pride and comfort through the long years.

It is not fiction.
It is the essence of life.

Being perpetual students of life, the websites below Harry and I found useful and fun to look through.

Computer translated. NEWS TRAN
WATCHING AMERICA
WORLD PRESS LOCATE AN INTERNET CAFE
RADIO LOCATOR INTERNET STREAMING AUDIO
TV WORLDWIDE
ART DAILY
ART TIMELINE
ART HISTORY RESOURCES
LOOKING AT BUILDINGS
HISTORIANS & PHILOSOPHERS
18TH CENTURY STUDIES
MEDIEVAL EUROPE
MEDIEVAL RESOURCES
MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD
CLASSIC WORKS
GREAT BOOKS FIVE STAR SITES
EUROPE'S NATIONAL LIBRARIES
THE BRITISH LIBRARY

EXPLORE YOUR WORLD LIKE A NATIVE

Two World Natives: Husband Harry & "Tom"

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
HOW FAR IS IT?

CITY MAYORS OF THE WORLD

WEATHER OFFICE
EUROPEAN WEATHER

HOW TO DIAL FROM WHERE YOU ARE
BANK HOLIDAYS
IS IT A HOLIDAY THERE?

EMBASSY WORLD
TOURIST OFFICES WORLDWIDE
TRAVEL DOCUMENTS
VOLTAGE

PORTALS TO THE WORLD
LAW & RESOURCES A-Z THE LAW OF NATIONS OF THE WORLD

MAP MACHINE
STREET MAPS for all EUROPEAN TOWNS & CITIES
CURRENT TOPICAL MAP IMAGES
EUROPEAN RAIL MAP
COUNTRY MAPS & CITY MAPS
DRIVING RULES IN EUROPE
PARIS SUBWAY NAVIGATOR IN ENGLISH
ROUTES INTERNATIONAL

THE MOTHER SOURCE OF ALL CHEAP AIR TICKETS
AIRWISE NEWS

BACKPACKING LIGHT
LIGHT GEAR

HOW MUCH IS THAT?
XE OANDA CREDIT COSTS GLOBAL TAX REFUNDS CONVERT

HISTORICAL COUNTRY NAMES WORLD CAPITALS LANGUAGES BY COUNTRY
WORLD RELIGIONS
MOST POPULOUS CITIES OF THE WORLD COMPARE YOUR NATION

"Perceptions are not whimscal but fatal"

Elizabeth & Tom watching rain drops hit our window

Propaganda is the total ground of any culture as it confronts any individual figure.
Propaganda, is not so much a message, but a total way of life.
This is the nature of learned culture.
This is what I learn about when I travel, live or work in another country.

Focus on decoding 'culture vultures' with their degraded motives, ambitions, and their propaganda machine. The advertiser seeks to submerge perception and motive in a collective sound-light show of turbulent sensation.

For cross-cultural views, see CROSS-CULTURAL INFO & STORIES TEACHING CULTURE WORLD LANGUAGES PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN USA

TRAVEL: AN EDUCATION OR JUST MORE CONSUMPTION?

Elizabeth at home in Monaco 2011

"I WANT TO JOIN THE FEW"
"SORRY, THERE ARE ALREADY TOO MANY."

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."

"Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?"

I have traveled around the world living and working in different cultures.
I have a deep and humane interest in cultural organization and economics, as both shape
one's life until we begin to think through how things work. This has been my real education, much more important than any of the many professional degree I have received.

Therefore, travel for me is not an end.
It is a means to learn how to use what is here to make one's life better.

Today, in our global village, every "city" in the world is a suburban "satellite" to every other city. All "hardware" city forms are obsolescent and tend toward the status of tourist attractions and museums.

The jet has given swift access to the entire planet as city, the housing and city styles of the immediate future will be as flexible and as programmed to taste as CD'S. The city can be tailored to the size and needs of any kind of group. It can be donned or doffed like clothing.

Today, as work becomes play through in depth involvement in knowledge, only festival cities will be meaningful to the new citizen of the global theater. There is no part of the world in which we do not participate, whether we know it or not. And there is no part of us which is not equally invaded by everything in the world.

"Nipping in" and "nipping out" anywhere in the world now involves responsibilities for having altered that part of the world. The drop-in and the dropout alter the situation totally. Internet communications literally "send" the sender to the remotest corners and back and bring the remotest people to us.

This "magnetic city" is our own nervous system, put outside as an enviornment of information.
This gesture of self-awareness scoffs at all the previous dimensions of "hardware'" planning, scale and education.

Now solutions lie NOT outside, but INSIDE the problems themselves. We can find them by recognizing their PROCESS patterns. Discovery comes from dialogue that starts with human beings sharing their ignorance.

WHAT IS HOME EXCHANGE?

Gaston "Tom" in front of our apartment in Honolulu

HOME EXCHANGE WEBSITES:
CRAIGS LIST DIGSVILLE HOME EXCHANGE HOME LINK SABBATICAL HOMES SENIORS HOME EXCHANGE SINGLES HOME EXCHANGE
For property caretaking and housesitting opportunities see
CARETAKER GAZETTE

Our Manhattan apartment was chosen by London's Channel 4, Maverick TV to film. See Channel 4's HOME TO HOME website below and scroll down the page to "Manhattan" to find the link. ELIZABETH'S MANHATTAN APT on LONDON TV
NEW YORK CITY LINKS TENANT NET

CARPE DIEM

Tom enjoying a new & wonderful life with us

Learn to make the most of life,
Lose no happy day.
Time will never bring them back,
Chances swept away.

Leave no tender word unsaid,
Love while love shall last;
For the mill will never grind with water that is past.

Sarah Dounedney

Thinking through life

Tamir & Elizabeth in Manhattan in 2005.

"Words are things, a small drop of ink....
Falling like dew upon a thought.
They produce that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

INCREASE YOUR HUMAN CAPITAL THROUGH TRAVEL

Elizabeth home at Villa Sassa (Lugano,Switzerland)

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rivambroza Apr 12, 2012 at 4:11 AM Report Abuse

Hello from Ukraine!!! Wonderful pictures!!!
iandsmith Dec 25, 2011 at 8:31 PM Report Abuse

Bonjour mon amis, I'm just booking a trip to France including 4 nights in Paris. Have a happy New Year. Cheers, Ian
Daja123 Dec 25, 2011 at 3:54 AM Report Abuse

Hallo Elisabeth! I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year from sunny Slovenia -:)) Darja
dr.firas Nov 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM Report Abuse

Dear Elizabeth :-) it is so nice to see you too, how've you been my dear?
are you still in Basel or did you moved to another place?
I hope life is treating you well and as beautiful as you are, you know Eric Fromm became one of my favorites authors, hope to see you in the VT Euro Meeting in Bergamo xxx
janetanne Aug 29, 2011 at 1:58 PM Report Abuse

So nice to hear from you Elizabeth. Thank you for your BD wishes. Summer time is always a busy time for traveling and escaping from the daily routine...and less time on the computer:):) Hugs from Greece. Janet
marimar_72 Aug 19, 2011 at 8:49 PM Report Abuse

Thank u sweetie 4 the birthday wishes...i was away on vacation and didnt have a chance to check my VT page. hugs.
ForestqueenNYC Jul 2, 2011 at 8:01 AM Report Abuse

Elizabeth, thank you for the birthday greeting. My computer has been at the Apple store for a while and I just got it back. So am slowly catching up on email, etc. I am enjoying Paris again after 5 months in the U.S.
Herkbert Jun 26, 2011 at 9:50 AM Report Abuse

Happy Belated Birthday,Elizabeth.. We just returned from two glorious weeks in France. Hope your day was a special one.. Tom
hunterV Jun 25, 2011 at 4:57 AM Report Abuse

Hi ~ Elizabeth ~ Long time no see! Happy birthday! ~ All the best in your future travels ~ Vic
mickybleck Jun 25, 2011 at 4:37 AM Report Abuse

Happy belated birthday, Elizabeth. Greetings from Germany