tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post1123693963065291183..comments2023-10-21T08:02:56.571-07:00Comments on No Dhimmitude: Iquitos, Peru: Words of Wise Advice to a Young Traveler from IdahoDaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-79068017831340098332012-10-18T04:28:00.758-07:002012-10-18T04:28:00.758-07:00The pleasure in meeting was all mine, sir. I'v...The pleasure in meeting was all mine, sir. I've longed to meet a fellow from Idaho for decades, sometimes fearing who I might find, someone disgraceful, someone disillusioning of all my hopes and dreams of our place personified; but you did it well, being a true and decent man who makes me proud of you, our home, and our nation. <br /><br />I write often of America of the Mind, that due to so long away that mostly all I have is attitude and memory, the Idaho of my being carried from a distant past to keep me entire in a floating reality of different peoples and places, an Idaho and an America I can call my home and place. when I am confronted by the absolute strange, I ask, "What would we do back home?" I can at least start from that solid foundation of the good, and if I mistake it all, at least I had the chance to stand on solid moral ground to begin. No one can take that away, and I take it with me wherever I go. <br /><br />Meeting you was a confirmation of the good I recall. Thanks for all of it, and my best wish to you in all the coming years of your long travels through life. Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-21594975585958158512012-10-11T20:52:24.418-07:002012-10-11T20:52:24.418-07:00I'm moved by your post. And I literally laughe...I'm moved by your post. And I literally laughed out loud when I read the part about how advice dribbles out of an old guy like urine in the pants.<br /><br />Although humorous, what you've written is true. Idahoans have a unique and rugged heritage and we are just about as far away from the rest of the United States as we are from Peru. Most Americans I've met around the U.S. have never met an Idahoan before (and often they don't even know where Idaho is.)<br /><br />Idaho has a reputation for being racist and ignorant but on the flip side all of these so called experts running our country and the countries of the world are, more often than not, complete idiots who would make just as much of a difference in the world if they were just dumb hillbillies from Idaho. In fact they would probably do less harm.<br /><br />I'm traveling the world and the experiences are life changing but above all I know and hold close to my awareness that I truly know nothing.<br /><br />Now I'm not condoning ignorance or racism and I'm not saying that because you're from Idaho you will walk around with some kinda socratic humility. No. Idahoans are normal people too with normal problems. I am only emphasizing the point I dunno cus I'm from Idaho and there's nothing wrong with that because that is the key to being young again, to becoming impressionable, and always learning and growing (and in old age dribbling a bit in the pants of course.)<br /><br />Thank you very much for writing this and I do plan on buying your book when I get back to the states. After 40 years of traveling, your stories must be amazing and something about the way you write is so damn Idahoan that it really resonates with me: the humorous, childlike naivety painted over a deep ocean of experience and complex, sometimes almost melancholic, emotion.<br /><br />It was a pleasure meeting you Dag!<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />A fellow Idaho man<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03833113950396348933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-7631633969786177242012-10-07T13:05:39.942-07:002012-10-07T13:05:39.942-07:00The best part of becoming a geezer is that you don...The best part of becoming a geezer is that you don't have to work at it. You can lay in bed eating K.D. from the pot and watch t.v. and before you know it you're a geezer just as old as the rest. <br /><br />Man, do I ever know stuff!Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-33439706342959398552012-10-07T12:59:00.382-07:002012-10-07T12:59:00.382-07:00I'm definitely getting there.I'm definitely getting there.Pastoriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-47174218874590546332012-10-07T12:41:37.019-07:002012-10-07T12:41:37.019-07:00You can give advice like that because you're a...You can give advice like that because you're a geezer, too. Of course, I'm more a geezer than you, so I can crank it out all day, and dribble, too, while I do so. Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-22516516466934039992012-10-07T12:04:49.231-07:002012-10-07T12:04:49.231-07:00Heh.
You should call this
Summa Cum Farting Wh...Heh. <br /><br />You should call this<br /><br />Summa Cum Farting While LaughingPastoriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.com