Travel at this time has it’s ups and downs, but if you are flexible, you flow with the challenges in order to continue with as good a life as possible. We recently visited New Orleans and found that we had to alter some of our routines in the face of shorter hours, closings, etc., but everything worked out for the best and there were several advantages. Let’s take a look at the list of positives:

Why would a man join the French Foreign Legion?  For some, it is to hide, to escape a wife, a prison sentence, bad debts.  For Simon Murray, at the age of twenty, it was simply because he could not think of anything else to do with his life.  Thus, he signed a contract for five years in what is often considered the most disciplined military in the world.  The Legion needs to be disciplined given the nature of the recruits, the location of its bases, the brutality of the wars it wages and the harshness of its discipline.