At a presentation last week, two speakers described their travels. The first presenter described her hike across the French and Swiss Alps. Her photos were beautiful, and the flora and fauna were unique and included alpine ibex with their long curving horns and chamois, a small goat-antelope, both very unlike Idaho species. Interestingly, they did find huckleberries. The next presenter described his trip to Thailand, almost literally on the other side of the globe from Switzerland, or Idaho. Here, he fed bamboo to elephants and dined on a dizzying variety of tropical fruits. One globe, two wildly different experiences.

We all remember geography class in junior and senior high school. For the most part, it seemed that we memorized capital cities and country locations on a map — at least th

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