July Travel News
Hi from Rick: Go Team USA…Go Team World!
The Paris Olympics are coming up soon…and I'm getting excited to cheer on Team USA, as the world's greatest athletes compete in one of the world's greatest cities.
While the Olympics stoke the patriotic spirit in anyone, spending a third of my adult life in Europe has made me approach the Games with a different mindset. Proud as I am to be an American, I also see the Olympics as a powerful reminder that we are just one member of the global family of nations. Getting emotional as the teams wave their flags en masse for the opening ceremony, I feel patriotic — not just for the USA, but for the whole world. (It also makes me wish that we could go back to the ancient Olympic tradition, when wars came to a halt so that the Greeks could be united in hallowed and peaceful competition.)… Read more
