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Travels with Palenque Bob - Tales from the Never-Ending Road Traveled!

Travel has been my life and thankfully my work - my travels have taken me to Central America, Asia and zillions of times to Europe - from a trip in my U-M college days - back when students often took summer sojourns to Europe, rarely done now it seems. But my travels also include very step I have taken - any walk anywhere - including zillions of miles in and around dear old Ann Arbor. Like I say I started traveling abroad when in college and liked it so much I went just about every year for the next four decades - again thankfully because I led tour groups I and friends created and rode incessantly on trains for months on end in conjuction with writing and editing a European travel magazine and business selling Eurailpasses we also created - again when railpasses were a great deal and very popular - we sold thousands via mail and in our Ann Arbor office. In 1975, when teaching high school at Romulus High (MI) I took a leave of absence and traveling literally around the world forn