ONE GREAT PLEASURE JUST LIKE MY YOUTH
Rick Hughes 09

THE GREATEST TIME WE EVER HAD WAS LAST WEEK, MY WIFE AND I ARE BOTH FROM THE RURAL WORLD PERIOD. SO WE ENJOY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES. THIS EXPERIENCE IN SOME WAYS REMINDED ME OF MY YOUTH IN ALDERSON. FROM MAY 23 TO MAY 31 WE WERE IN NEW YORK CITY AT THE WALDORF ASTORIA, THAT IS ABOUT AS DIFFERENT AS ANYWHERE WE HAVE EVER BEEN, IT WAS AN EXPERIENCE. JUST LIKE WHEN I LIVED IN ALDERSON, I HAD NO CAR AND WE WALKED EVERYWHERE. WE GOT UP BETWEEN 5 AND 6 O'CLOCK EACH MORNING, HAD 2 POTS OF COFFEE, SOMETIMES ATE AT THE HOTEL AND SOMETIME WENT OUT AND ATE WHEREVER WE WANDERED, IT WAS ALWAYS WONDERFUL FOOD. IT WAS TO ME SIMILAR TO LIVING IN ALDERSON IN THAT WE WALKED AND WALKED AND WALKED. WE WOULD WALK 8 TO 10 HOURS A DAY ALL OVER THAT MAGNIFICENT URBAN ENVIRONMENT. THE FIRST WE WALKED FROM THE WALDORF CLEAR TO CANAL STREET AND BACK, THAT IS LIKE WALKING TO ALTA AND BACK. AS WALKED EVERYWHERE SOMETIMES WE WOULD GET LOST, I CARRIED A MAP, AND WITH GREAT SKILL, PERHAPS I EXAGGERATE, I WAS ABLE TO KEEP US IN CONSTANT TURMOIL. MANY OF THE PEOPLE FROM NEW YORK ARE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, THEY HAVE GREAT GREAT EATING PLACES ,WITH WONDERFUL CAPITALISTIC COMPETITION, THESE PEOPLE REALLY WORK FOR OUR BUSINESS, ALMOST ALL NEW YORKERS ARE SHOCKINGLY VERY FRIENDLY. ALL OF THEM ASK ME WHERE I WAS FROM AND SAID I HAD AN ACCENT. ANYWAY, FROM OUR PERCEPTION NEW YORK IS A WONDERFUL FUN EXCITING AROUND THE CLOCK PLACE. IT IS A GREAT GREAT PLACE TO WALK AND GET IN EXCELLENT SHAPE, AND EVERYWHERE YOU GO THERE IS GOOD HEALTHY FOOD AVAILABLE. IT IS AROUND THE CLOCK FUN AND JUST WONDERFUL, AND IT REMINDED ME OF MY WALKING YOUTH IN ALDERSON, SUCH GREAT GREAT FUN, SUCH INTENSE PLEASURE.