Let us all be dreadfully weary of the marketing words, "trip of a lifetime."
Suppose you've always dreamed of visiting the Registan. Or Hot Springs. Or, for that matter, of marrying a man named Jose.
No matter how fulfilling your initial experience of making it to Uzbekistan or Arkansas, and no matter how utterly fabulous it was to meet Jose, you still want the next day at the mosque or spa, or with Jose, to be even better.
For me, it's pretty hard to beat a total solar eclipse. Others maybe, it's hard to beat swimming with the dolphins, or even hangin' with ol' Jose. In August, we're going gorilla trekking, and I was just reading how that's the "encounter of a lifetime."
Maybe we ought to try to let every trip be, one way or another, "of a lifetime" - at least until the next one - and if somebody thinks they can sell it to us with those words, we probably ought to book it elsewhere.
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