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. . .Mt. Etna, which is really on a tear now. Of course, that's down in Sicily, but I believe it's on the same tectonic plate as Etna.
When Papa Elf and I visited Sicily in 2009, we walked up the path to the top of the crater, and peered down into the caldera, which was mostly grey rock with a faint streak of bright red-orange lava. (The same thing happened when we visited Hawaii's Mt. Kilauea the previous year.) Let's see now, we have visited the following areas: The UK, just before mad cow disease; Hawaii and Sicily, before their volcanoes erupted; New Zealand, the summer before Christchurch was devastated by earthquakes and blizzards; Ukraine, just before Putin started making it unpleasant; Cairo, Egypt, just before the place erupted in religious/political riots; China, just before Americans became persona non grata; Mexico, just before it became unsafe to travel there. We've decided to stop world travel before we jinx yet another country! |
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