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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

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July 4, 1978

  • Louise Brown born, worlds first test tube baby

Living in canada
  • The popularity of Freddie Laker's Skytrain causes chaotic scenes at Gatwick Airport.
  • Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA launches Anik IV, Canada's 4th
    domestic communications satellite.
  • Chicago Illinois - Ward & Randy's CBBS is the world's first Computer Bulletin Board. 
  • I'm not sure of the vintage of this photo a friend sent me, but it was around this time!
 

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux (b. 1941), U.S. novelist, travel writer. Quoted in: Observer (London, 7 Oct. 1979).
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