There will be no Country of the Week feature this week. It’s Thanksgiving, it’s my birthday, I’m going home, I just can’t do it. Originally I had thought: well, I’ll just pick a country which, although I DO have an index card in my pile for it, I don’t know THAT much about …and I’ll just write about it on Monday and Tuesday, and then take time off for the holiday. I actually spent time thinking about this. Trying to pick a country which I know a BIT about, but not TOO much about. Something that would warrant only two days. This is horrible! Of course I don’t mean to say that certain countries are more worthy of consideration than others, but I could never do Uzbekistan or Armenia or Kazakhstan in two days. These countries are my passion (well, there are others), these countries fill my head with facts, dates, ideas, opinions. However, I could probably do Liberia in two days. Or…Estonia. Fascinating places. Interesting histories. But they aren’t in my blood like the others.
But then I thought: Fuck it. I’m taking a couple of days off.
