Oh boy, it’s October and the month of one of my favorite holidays. I’ll be getting my costume out shortly and making a list of all the creepy places I’m going to discover. Of course I’m talking about National Lief Erikson day. It’s coming up Friday the 9th and it will be great. You can dress up like a rabid Minnesota Viking football fan for a day and run around eating a huge turkey leg while shouting for more wine.
Why Lief Erikson day? I’ll tell you why. Lief was vacationing in Cape Cod and on Martha’s Vineyard five hundred years before Christopher Columbus’s mom dropped her pants so Mr. Columbus could do a little exploring. The real point here is that Chris was a terrible sailor and never set foot in America. He got as close as an island in the Caribbean and that was it. On top of that, how can you say Columbus discovered America when there were native Americans already living here? It is obvious that Chris might have been a lousy sailor but he had a world class press agent.
Chris would probably be bigger than ever in today's time. He would fit right into the headlines of the day with, Paris, Jon & Kate, Bristol, and the Kardashians. Boneheads who are constantly in the news only because they are boneheads. The fact that we continue to read about them only proves that our rubbernecker gene is hereditary and at times much stronger than our common sense gene.
So let's all dress up like Lief Erikson on Friday and see if we can make the local news.
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Stay tuned for future adventures.
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