The Last Voyage of the Cosmic Muffin was written, published and book tour down the east coast completed. Now it is time to buckle down on the story about what happened next.
Dutch sayings include "struck by a mill" which means crazy. To say someone is "small mill" means he is small-minded and if someone says "great for mills" that means he likes it.
In the 1800's there were 10,000 windmills in the Netherlands. Today only 900 of these old mills are 900.
The Rhine River is rising as is the sea level. This part of Europe is also sinking. And Global warming...well you put the pieces together.
A bike gets stolen in Amsterdam every 40 seconds.
Amsterdam has 2400 houseboats, a regulated number.
2000 bridges....could use a few more.
50% tax rate for earnings over 40,000. Don't know if that is Euros or dollars. The result: good roads, no universal health care and everyone who works gets a pension at 65.
Born and raised near Saratoga Springs, New York, Valerie Perez first joined the US Army and spent three years in Alaska as a photo lab technician. She earned her undergraduate degree in business from Georgia State University in Atlanta and an MBA from the University of Michigan and was a managing partner with Design Management Alliance until she got a bug up her butt and decided to be a writer. Good luck with that!!
Shortly before her fiftieth birthday, she joined the Peace Corps fulfilling a lifelong dream. She was sent to the Federated States of Micronesia where she worked with disadvantaged youth.
The author has traveled and hiked through South America, Nepal and Thailand and now lives in Hawaii.
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