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Here are a few comparisons to other liquids we purchase. The unit price has been converted into cost per gallon:

* Diet Snapple 16oz $1.29 $10.32/gallon

* Lipton Ice tea 16oz $1.19 $9.52/gallon

* Garorade 20oz $1.59 $10.17/gallon

* Vick’s Nyquil 6oz $8.35 $178.13/gallon

* Scope 1.5oz $0.99 $84.48/gallon

* Whiteout 7oz $1.39 $25.43/gallon

*Evian Water 9oz $1.49 $21.19/gallon

I guess gasoline doesn’t cost so much when you think about it.

Thanks to John Fredrickson a terrific Pasadena Real Estate Broker for compiling the above information.

All roads lead to the gift shop.

Rebecca Burrow

We were in Italy when the World Cup started and so we have been enjoying watching all of the matches. Now even though the USA and Mexico have both been eliminated we are still watching. I’m now for England or Italy.

I think that of all sports, soccer is the best metaphor for life.

• There are very few breaks in the action.
• You have to always be on offense and defense.
• Most of what you try doesn’t work.
• A lot of what goes on is important but boring.

In Italy they set up TV in piazzas so people could watch:

To win in soccer:

• Teamwork is necessary, but so are heroic individual acts.
• Luck counts.
• Lots of the time you know the score, but not how much time there is to play.
• Conditioning is incredibly important.
• It has some silly rules like “off sides” and “hands.”

Just like in life.

Here is a picture of me wearing my 1998 world cup tee shirt:

Bracketed around our walking trip with Wayfarers we also visited Napoli (Naples), Roma (Rome) and Umbria.

An Italian Country Scene

We went to see the Roman town of Spello on a Sunday and, serendipitiously, happened to get there on ascension day. They have a famous festival that day where they make street art out of flower petals. It was like the Rose Parade Floats run over in the road.

Corpus day in Spello

One of the things we saw again on this trip was how religions try to absorb their predecessors. This Roman Temple in Assisi was turned into a Christian Church.

Click on any of the pictures to see a lot more pictures from the trip on Flickr. Flikr is Yahoo’s equivalent of Shutterfly. You don’t need to sign in or open an account to see the pictures. Click on the Napoli, Roma and Umbria section in the right center to see this picture set.

Here are 90 of the photos we took on the Wayfarers trip. It was a great adventure with a fun and creative group of people.

A coastal town

The Italian national flower 

A new friend

Click on a photo to see the entire batch that is stored on Flickr a photo service similiar to Shutterfly. Email me if you have a problem accessing the photos.

Here is a nice example of how globalization helps everybody:

A box of Japanese apples (Fuji) being sold in a small store in Ravello, Italy, grown in China and imported by the Italian branch of an American banana company with a Spanish name (Chiquita).

It is better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

B. C. Forbes

Founder Forbes Magazine

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Unknown

Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.

Thomas Jefferson