We landed in London a few hours ago, not the most pleasant flight.
But for my blog I'm going to talk about a couple things, first I wanted to let everyone know that on this journey Muk, Luk, and I have discovered the meaning of life!
As we sat in a restaurant a couple blocks from our hostel in Rome the topic of dogs being able to get std's came up (just go with it...this is normal for us). Anyways, I asked if they could still get them if they were spaded...Luk then pointed out that they would lose the interest in having sex, she then thought what would be the point to life if you didn't want to have sex. I then stated that I learned in ecology that the whole point in an organisms life is to reproduce, therefore we stumbled across the idea that the true meaning of life is to have sex! We as intelligent animals think that there is more to it... I'm not going to get into religion and all but basically the meaning of life it to have sex/reproduce.
Anyways, for me to get credit from Hollins I must talk about something other than sex...so I'm going to talk about road kill!
As you all know we rented a Fiat 500 while we were in Italy, I was the Italian driver for the week while Luk was the navigator and Muk was pleasantly riding in the back seat. Well on the 5 hour drive from Venice to Rome (take the tolls!) I noticed the landscape was very similar to Virginia's but I saw very little road kill, Luk and I then discussed how Italy has a low population of deer, squirrels and opossums. As much as they would all fit into the environment, they mostly wouldn't fit well into the food chain.
Tuk
But for my blog I'm going to talk about a couple things, first I wanted to let everyone know that on this journey Muk, Luk, and I have discovered the meaning of life!
As we sat in a restaurant a couple blocks from our hostel in Rome the topic of dogs being able to get std's came up (just go with it...this is normal for us). Anyways, I asked if they could still get them if they were spaded...Luk then pointed out that they would lose the interest in having sex, she then thought what would be the point to life if you didn't want to have sex. I then stated that I learned in ecology that the whole point in an organisms life is to reproduce, therefore we stumbled across the idea that the true meaning of life is to have sex! We as intelligent animals think that there is more to it... I'm not going to get into religion and all but basically the meaning of life it to have sex/reproduce.
Anyways, for me to get credit from Hollins I must talk about something other than sex...so I'm going to talk about road kill!
As you all know we rented a Fiat 500 while we were in Italy, I was the Italian driver for the week while Luk was the navigator and Muk was pleasantly riding in the back seat. Well on the 5 hour drive from Venice to Rome (take the tolls!) I noticed the landscape was very similar to Virginia's but I saw very little road kill, Luk and I then discussed how Italy has a low population of deer, squirrels and opossums. As much as they would all fit into the environment, they mostly wouldn't fit well into the food chain.
Tuk
just wanted to point out that we think there might be a lower population of these animals. as well, it's possible that the urbanization that seems to have occurred along the toll roads might have driven the animals away. but... we ended up on this totally ridiculously backwoods road in italy and still didn't see many animals. sorry tuk, just felt we should clarify!
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