IRGIN IEWS by RGINIA

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

I took a trip over Christmas and did it by myself. Originally the trip had been planned with a TS friend of mine who is a student at UCLA and wanted to take a trip after the close of one semester and before the next one started. She also wanted to limit the cost. Since we were both interested in anthropology, evolution, archaeology, etc. we set up a trip to the Galapagos Islands where Darwin got many of the ideas eventually incorporated in his Origin of Species, and to the land of the Incas in Perus.

Once we got the thing all set up I took off on the trip to England and Fantasia Fair that I wrote about in Transvestia a couple of issues ago. I got back from that trip to find out that financial reverses had caught up to my friend while I was away and she wasn't going to be able to go. This was both a disappointment and something of a worry since she could speak Spanish and I couldn't. This was a somewhat frightening prospect because although I have traveled alone in England and Scandinavia I wasn't too thrilled by the prospect of being on my own in countries where English wasn't so common and which on top of that were well known to be pretty machismo in attitude and not likely to be very understanding of a wandering TV or TG if that should become known. However there was a small matter of a $750 non-returnable deposit if I didn't go and that was quite an inducement so the end result was that I decided that I would go by myself.

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