Erik'sTravel

I just completed a 30-day trip around the world to attend University of Central Asia's graduation and to visit family in the U.S.  I traveled from Jakarta to Kyrgyzstan (via Istanbul) to the U.S. and back to Jakarta again. It was a super trip, but I calculated that the ten flights I took this past month (a distance of over 30,000 kilometers) released a lot of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.  Just my individual contribution alone amounted to about 11,000 kg of greenhouse gases.  That's not good for the environment at all, especially when we are facing the dire effects of climate change. What's the best solution to this problem?  Not traveling by air, of course.  However, unfortunately, I live far away from my family and economic necessity requires me to hold my current job, until I find a position closer to loved ones, so air travel is an environmental evil I really cannot avoid.  So, what to do? In my case, I have chosen to do something more than wrin...

  Earlier in my U.S. trip, I visited my son in North Platte, Nebraska.  It's the reddest, Trumpiest part of a very red state.  And during my visit I stopped at Fort Cody, a fake U.S. Army fort built in the 1960s to lure tourists off the newly-built superhighways as they traveled to vacation destinations out in the Western U.S. like the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park. That's why you display the two headed calf that was born on a farm in Nebraska in the 1940s, then stuffed after it died having lived only three days. This kind of oddity would be advertised as something to draw curious tourists off the highway to buy the souvenirs in your tourist attraction.  As I visited Fort Cody, the fake Army fort, I realized that this "tourist trap" was exclusively designed for Red-State, MAGA Trumpists and totally reflects their values and mental picture of what America is and should be.  Luckily, you don't have to visit Fort Cody, but I can interpret it for you and show yo...