Nowadays the pickle moves around in every possible sense. Over the past several weeks the "kicking" has increased in frequency and intensity, sure, but the pickle moves around in the transport sense more than anything else.
It's hard to imagine a more mobile mama than Kasha for sure, but thinking about the pickle in all these locations starts to stagger the mind.
Week 1: Beijing China and the onset of Urban Mega- Metropolitan Winter. Desert-adjacent.
Week 4: Mid-Michigan, USA in the midst of a hundred-year blizzard. Froze-over Freshwater Ocean State.
Week 5: From balmy-Me-Ah-Me to the shores of every Caribbean Island. Tropical Paradise.
Week 6: Back in the P.R.C.
Week 10: Harbin Festival of Ice. Imagine Hell Frozen Over, now pound all your toes with a hammer and then get shamelessly mugged in the open by every person you encounter while a horse is euthanized in the streets of a city where your pasty skin and icicle-d beard earns you no other option than to be greeted in broken Chinese-Russian. No joke: Worst Place Ev-va.
Week 20: the Rounded Mountains and Meandering Lakes of Guilin. Start the day with Spelunking and finish it off with Beer Fish and River Snail Surprise!
Week 23: Motown via Tokyo, the Lego-land of the rising sun.
Sub-zero-to tropical, mountain climbing and cave diving, urban/rural, rivers, lakes, oceans, planes, trains, taxis, busses, boats and bikes... the pickle gets around like pork flu!
I wonder what this says about the future. I mean (besides Canada, eh!) I never left the USA until I was 20 years old! In as many weeks, the Pickle has been to half a dozen countries all over the world. I say, keep on punchin', Pickle!
Look, it is kinda nerve-wracking to think of Kasha navigating international airports alone, that's just the truth. But they say that travel is inoculation against bigotry, and (besides DTaP Vaccine) there is no better vaccination I could imagine.
Plus, it seems like travel is unlikely to require needles for at least a few more months. We'll see. Kasha, along with 300 of her travel compatriots, on arriving in Tokyo from Detroit, was held for nearly two hours while every person on board had their temperature taken by a team of doctors in haz-mat suits!
Hey, if it prevents one person from catching some microscopic no-good, I'm all in favor of it.
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