FIVE LIFE REGRETS YOU CAN EASILY AVOID

“Five Life Regrets You Can Easily Avoid” has a surprising list. The number one thing people regret is trying too hard to please others.  Number five is not traveling enough.

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THE FACEBOOK PRIMARY

“The Facebook Primary” shows you who would win the election when judged by the number of Facebook “likes.” When we looked ten days ago, Ben Carson was first, and Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were tied for second. Hillary was left at the starting gate. When we checked just now, Sanders and Trump were tied for first with 23 percent each and Cruz was second with 12 percent. Hilary had eight percent.

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28 MUST-EAT SANDWICHES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

“28 Must-Eat Sandwiches from around the World.”  has some unusual ideas. (Joy really liked the curried chickpeas with mango and coconut.) Here we learned that the average American kid has eaten 1500 peanut butter sandwiches by the time they graduate from high school. (Grape jelly we would guess.) In Europe, they eat less than a tablespoon of American-style peanut butter per person a year. (When we dropped hundreds of tons of it as food aid in Afghanistan, they had no idea what it was and fed it to their goats,)

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ARM CHAIR TRAVEL

Why go anywhere when a drone can soar over the landscape providing views you could never get on the ground? (Especially useful for buying castles in Spain.) Go to YouTube.com/user/Egawauemon for some amazing drone panoramas. They mainly cover Japan, but also India, San Francisco and Hong Kong. And there is no danger of food poisoning. Another great site for armchair traveling is FullScreen360.com. We looked at the Louvre, the Trevi Fountain, Machu Picchu and Yosemite. (No extra charge for side trips.) As you click a left or right arrow, the view opens in that direction and can ultimately give you a full 360 degrees. It feels like you’re there, and of course you’re walking on air. There are dozens of […]

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