Will check out your travelogue - you have surely come a long way and have miles to go ;*)
Do think of Rush as a missionary of sorts; calling people to the 'truth'; often wonder, just how many lives he has touched/changed for the better. Tholugh already a 'repub'. . .he helped me 'solidify' a political philosophy. . .a separating of 'wheat from chafe', so to speak.
Thanks... need to get the UK, Paris, Kalmar summer trips done before we go to St. Petersburg next weekend.... so much writing..so little time...
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