Happy Earth Day!

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Fifty years ago, our home planet was predicted to be gasping its last breath by the 1990's, so if like me you did your best to follow the instructions of your Ecology 101 professor, take a bow.

We saved the planet!

However, much like a diet and exercise program, the job is never really finished.

It's an ongoing process.

The last fifty years has been a time of never-ending, incremental improvement of the environment.  Certainly, there have been occasional setbacks, but the overall trend has been positive.

People under the age of fifty can't remember a time when protecting our environment wasn't a primary concern.

This sensible approach of gradual improvement has proven to be sustainable.

Some now propose over-the-top, self-destructive policies surrendering our personal freedoms to bureaucrats, somehow forgetting that any time power has been centralized in government rather than dispersed with individual freedoms, the results have inevitably turned disastrous.

Let's each continue to do our own parts so that such statists don't seize our freedoms in the name of a "greater good."

To keep on track, we all need to regularly get out in nature to appreciate it, just to remind us why is is well worth the effort.

In the United States, we're blessed with beautiful beaches and national parks, but there's a vast, regionally unique world out there to explore.

Fortunately, 70% of our magnificent planet is covered by navigable water. 

Cruising makes visiting distant ecological havens possible for the average American.

Where will you go next?

You didn't do all that hard work saving the planet for nothing!

Wes