Looking for that hungry giant rat...

People my age might get the Firesign Theater reference. For the rest of you, you missed some good laughs. Speaking of fun times, good friend Don Handley and I had some time available to visit a place on the bucket list. Kathmandu was the first choice but at this time of year the air pollution is very unhealthy and the visibility is so bad, you cannot see the Himalayas. We chose the Indonesian island of Sumatra for myriad reasons. We made a list of places and activities, but decided to keep the options fluid and they did, in fact, change a number of times. All of our travels were in the northern third of the Island. It all worked out and the experience made me smile.

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