I've always had a soft spot for Afar Magazine. The first time I subscribed to that quirky travel magazine, I read an article about the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, and the next time I was there, I took a magical, fog shrouded walk in Outer Sunset, ending up at the Riptide, a neighborhood bar where you can sit by the fire and listen to the fog horns in the background. And so, when I received an offer in the mail to resubscribe to Afar, I did. I recently finished reading the winter issue, which features Afar's top 25 places to go in 2025. A lot of the places they recommend seem quite intriguing, but some I have to question. I have been unexpectedly surprised how nice many places I have visited turned out to be, including Columbia, Missouri, Lawrence, Kansas, Des Moines, Iowa, and Duluth, Minnesota, but are Columbus, Ohio and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma really two of the top 25 places to visit IN THE WORLD this year? And visiting the Karakoram Mountains in Northeast Pakistan might be fun, but isn't Pakistan a little on the dangerous side right now? Also, I am sure the "happy coast" of Costalegre, Mexico, located south of Puerto Vallarta, is quite beautiful, but aren't there drug cartels having shootouts in much of that country these days? And in the "Just Back From" section on the back page, the author and her mother spent a weekend at the Palms Hotel and Spa in Miami Beach, and had a wonderful time, but never stepped foot on the beach. And the Palms Hotel and Spa is an oceanfront hotel. You would rather have aromatic facials at the hotel's spa than walk a few steps to the beach? I don't understand this world anymore. I definitely must be getting old. I mean older. Much older.
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