I had a column to publish today about (what else) rail travel around the world, but I just can’t imagine posting those words in the aftermath of today’s school shooting in Connecticut wherein 28 people have lost their lives–most of them children under the age of 10. I’ve lost my appetite for travel, for writing, for food. Everything.
As this magazine’s token American columnist, I composed several paragraphs about this tragedy and the complicated relationship between my home country and guns before deleting every last one. I think it’s better to wait for the appropriate words to come– if they do–with time. President Obama has already said all anyone can really say in the direct wake of the shootings.
In the meantime, hug your people. It’s during times like these that I wish I were closer to my own.
Susan is a Texan with a history in environmental consulting, Thai language learning, hookah bar management, and slinging co-operatively-owned beer. Currently, she’s searching for the best food in a 500 meter radius of any given train station between Asia and America as she travels overland from Chiang Mai, Thailand to Austin, Texas. She writes the website Splendor in the Lemongrass, where the content is everyone’s two favorite things: explicit food porn and travel navel-gazing. While attempting to be productive she lives on Twitter under the @siouxzen handle.
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absolutely devastating news Susan… ake ake kia kaha
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Absolutely devastating. So sorry you have to be far from home for this – thinking all my American friends and family all over the world.