<OT> One more reason I am glad I don't live in CA

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:45:18 -0500 (EST)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > meant to do something else. Perspective and all that. If you travel the
> > > world, ever wonder why there are all those damned Swedish kids between
> > > 18 and 20 roaming the airports of Kaula Lampur, Auckland and Bali?
> >
> > mommy & daddy have a lot of money?  :)
>
> Well, there is that. Sweden is not a poor country. The kids tend to travel
> with a backpack and a book. Air in those parts, is, from what I gather,
> rather nourishing. Having moved here after grad school, I missed out on it.

I would have loved to be able to spend a year traveling immediately after
high school (ugh, i feel old, that was almost 10 years ago).  But the
educational system in the US really isn't all that conducive to it.  I
know that my options would have been severely limited had I not gone
straight from HS to college.  Perhaps things have changed in the past
decade.

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