He was loving life & rearing to throw back a bunch of drinks to emphasize the emotion. I deeply involved with every minute as well, but there is this strange thing that happens to me when I travel: I’m never too keen on drinking a whole lot. Not to mention that multiple beers would have mandated peeing in the awfully nice pool.

I truly hate to harp on older folks; after all, time is going to rob all of us of our pleasant features and younger generations will point and wince at me soon enough. But when I see all the grannies doing aqua-aerobics in their bathing caps and blue perms all I can think is Dammit, they’re gonna make the pool smell like Cream of Mushroom soup!