Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


My only trips outside the US up until three years ago were courtesy of
Uncle Sam and I was much too busy to pay attention to culture except
for the occasional R&R - even then, it was more a case of "Oh, that's
nice". My time in Australia was courtesy of Uncle Sam when we were
training with some SAS types.

I will be the first to admit that I am the prototypical Ugly American
in the sense that I could care less about other cultures - I'm just
not interested. I don't want to "understand" them, I don't want to
"know" about them, I basically don't want to have anything to do with
them. Cultural Anthropology has never been one of my interests. Other
than Ireland and a fishing trip to Cuba, I've never been outside the
confines of the US since I left the service and I have no desire to do
so.

Hell, I don't even like to leave the confines of New England and
specifically, CT, RI, MA and occasionally, NY and I get nervous when
I'm outside the CT state lines. :)

You mentioned that you were up in my area at one time. What mayhem were
you part of then?