“No Battle Plan Survives
Contact With the Enemy”German military strategist Helmuth von Moltke
I've seen that the same can be said of
trips. Just before, or just after, you start something will come up.
This morning it did- nothing major, but resulting in a change of
route and timing.
I wouldn't mention it at all, except
that it relates directly to the book. Several of the folks I'll be
visiting are involved in research to make Sustainable Ag more-
sustainable. This often involves writing grants, which is a headache
in itself. What's worse is how the grant agencies tend to write the
requirements for their “Innovation Grants” in such a way as to
exclude anything really innovative. They tend to want to fund
projects to make fundamentally unsustainable Industrial Ag projects
look “greener,” gobbling up funds that new ideas need to come to
fruition. None of us has escaped this madness in our efforts.
One of my contacts emailed me today,
that they need the time we'd planned on to recover from a surprise of
this sort- disappearing funding and changes of plans. We'll still get
together, just not when, where and for as long as we'd planned.
John Steinbeck got into trouble trying
to take his dog, Charlie, across the US/Canada border. I'm planning
to cross that border more than once, but Carol insisted that I need a
“Charlie” along. I've also thought that this trip calls for a
special cap. Problems solved!
Yesterday was Crazy Day in Montevideo.
The dance studio on the main drag was having a garage sale, at which
I found an authentic, new, well fitting Greek fisherman's cap, and an
ideal traveling companion, a plush koala bear. I plan to name her/him
“Travelin' Toonie, the koala copilot.” Toonie cost two dollars.
In Canada they have a $2 coin called a “toonie.” Hence- Travelin'
Toonie. (S)he will appear in photos along the way.
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