February 2006

On our way to Africa on Sept. 24, ’05, and with a long layover at New York’s JFK, I tried to find a mailbox in the airport to mail some bills that would come due while we were gone. Lo and behold, I found out that all of the mailboxes had been removed after 9/11.

When I asked the woman working at the Red Carpet room there about it, she said that they had all been removed because of anthrax! After doing a double take, I sweetly asked her if by any chance she would mind mailing my bills for me on her way home, as we were going to Johannesburg.

—by Yvonne Michie Horn, Santa Rosa, CA

Sitting high above the Danube in Austria is the 900-year-old, baroque Melk Abbey. As we walked into its library, we were struck by the fact that, at the whim of a bygone archbishop, all the books have the same binding. The building features 365 windows, a magnificent carved pulpit and exquisite ceiling frescoes. — CARROLL CHANDLER, Dallas, TX
  

Dear Globetrotter:

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