The other night I was sound asleep and was awoken by the sound of people talking in what seemed like a Germanic language. At 3AM it seemed perfectly fine for newly arrived European guests to have a conversation on one of the porches near me. The conversation occasionally lapsed into English. I could hear a male voice say "Oh, I've always wanted to go there."
A lady mentions an exotic locale and a guy says, "Oh I've always wanted to go there." I wonder what sort of places reside in our brains in the category of places we want to but never will visit. People often say that about Greece or Italy. These are the types of places that are shown in travelogues to school children on the day or two before summer vacation. The teacher has finished the exams and is too tired to try to teach anything so she shows a movie about the cable cars of Lisbon. These movies are soon forgotten until years later someone mentions a place that is residing in our memory from that long forgotten movie.
