Building the Travel Family

The rainy season has arrived -- the deck is wet, the city has disappeared into the fog. It'll be blah for the next four or five months.

Also, The Baby Isabella Cuteness Report was just given over the phone -- she had her first outing today, to the pediatrician. All seems well down there and it's raining up here. So -- it's time to think about The Travel Family.

Traveling is all about meeting new people in new places and building a Travel Family is the best way to go about it. Last night, Plot and Duck met Jorge and Mabel, one a filmmaker and one an antrhopologist, who both work at UCLA but are from Buenos Aires. Jorge and Mabel have invited Plot and Duck to come to Buenos Aires in March, when they return home. Naturally, Plot and Duck have reciprocated the invitation to Jorge and Mabel, and since the two are living in Stiletto City and Stiletto City is Plotnik's home town, he and Duck have much to show them there.

Last night Plot also sent a letter to Irmy and Geri in Munich, informing them about Jorge and Mabel. Irmy and Geri have been in the Travel Family since they met Duck and Plot in Capetown and showed the Plotniks the wonders of Munich three weeks later. This means Irmy and Geri now have access to Jorge and Mabel in Buenos Aires, and then there's The National Treasure in Oslo, and Joy, FiveHead's Mom, who will be in Johannesburg next summer, and Luke Angel, PD's good friend and travel agent, who is in Capetown. All these people have Plotnikkie privileges at World Headquarters and at all other Travel Family stops.

Who else is out there? Perhaps The Great Dancenik, who could cover The Big Shmapple (especially when she buys her house in Brooklyn); certainly The Great PD, 5H and Baby I in Stiletto City; certainly The Great BZWZ wherever she settles down; more people in more places are needed, particularly: Madagascar, India, the Seychelles, Santiago de Chile and Potosi, Bolivia. Another name in Buenos Aires couldn't hurt, and then there's the entire nation of Paraguay.