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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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Hi Folks,
Well, Linda and I are leaving for Paris in a few hours. I'll have my CPU with me so I should be able to check in regularly. There's all kinds of warnings for Americans not to go, but we've paid for everything and we can't let the terrorist succeed in keeping us from living our lives. Should something happen, we're attempting to do what we love (travel) and see some of our members we haven't met face to face as of yet. (Maybe we'll even meet Yann and Magne a some of you others).
You can't live life always from the sidelines or behind your computer screen. I am taking a risk by going with all my health issues, but after spending the last 9 months in hospitals and doctors offices or lying in MRI or CAT scan machines of having my 100th blood draw (I am nearly there) or sitting at home in my living room chair as the world flies by outside I have to go out and meet life. It's worth the risk to take the chance. You should think of things in the same way. We only get this one shot and all of us could be gone tomorrow for any number of reasons. As I say in my signature, don't wait for success to find you, it doesn't know the way. Get out and at least give yourself a chance to run into it on the street. Or in a foreign city, even under terrorist threats. If we make it out alive and well, I assure you we'll have some new life long friends to show for it at worst along with some new life long memories that one or both of us can reflect on years from now when we may no longer be able to take a trip like this.
We do hope to visit Belgium again as well as the Netherlands and possible a short visit to Germany, Switzerland, Southern France or Spain. And I fully hope that my health will hold up and even improve with all the walking and activity.
If the worst should happen, it's been a great ride and I thank you all for making my life so rich and so wonderful. And please, go outside and meet someone new at a club or a music store or a library or in a park. Make it a goal to make more brand new friends than I do over the next 5 weeks. I'll try to take photos of mine, you do the same and then we'll introduce our new friends to you and your new friends. Deal?
We're all in this together, Just Plain Folks!
Brian
Brian Austin Whitney Founder Just Plain Folks jpfolkspro@gmail.com Skype: Brian Austin Whitney Facebook: www.facebook.com/justplainfolks"Don't sit around and wait for success to come to you... it doesn't know the way." -Brian Austin Whitney "It's easier to be the bigger man when you actually are..." -Brian Austin Whitney "Sometimes all you have to do to inspire humans to greatness is to give them a reason and opportunity to do something great." -Brian Austin Whitney
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Have a good trip Brian. Yeah - they already have made travel a misery and cost us billions - can't let them stop us altogether.
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God bless you, Brian! Hope you have a safe and wonderful trip and come back with some great stories! Thank you so much for everything you've done and for everyone's lives you have touched (including mine, very much so). Thank you for being such an inspiration to us all and well, for being YOU! Much love, and wishing you a healthy trip and a safe return. (((HUGS)))
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Be safe, Brian, and have a wonderful trip!
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Considering what you've already been through,terrorists are the LEAST of your worries..Have a great trip!
bc
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Hi Folks,
We got here safely. There were 3 flight delays causing a missed flight and 7 extra hours traveling. It's 1:38AM here Wednesday morning and I still haven't slept since Sunday.
Yawn.. time to go! = )
Thanks everyone!
Brian
Brian Austin Whitney Founder Just Plain Folks jpfolkspro@gmail.com Skype: Brian Austin Whitney Facebook: www.facebook.com/justplainfolks"Don't sit around and wait for success to come to you... it doesn't know the way." -Brian Austin Whitney "It's easier to be the bigger man when you actually are..." -Brian Austin Whitney "Sometimes all you have to do to inspire humans to greatness is to give them a reason and opportunity to do something great." -Brian Austin Whitney
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Yer a wild man, Brian
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