Hitler didn't travel

About this blog

Choosing the name for a blog seems to be a bit like choosing how to decorate a house, or your haircut. You know it will be judged as a reflection of your character, you're not quite sure what message you're trying to send, and you'll probably send the wrong one anyway. 'Harry and Tom's trip around South America' would be okay, in the same way that Tolkien could have called it 'Short people wandering through Middle Earth', or Lucas could have called it 'Quasi-religious hokum with lasers, in space', but it's not exactly snappy. In an attempt to negotiate this tricky impasse of zippy title vs self-consciousness, I decided to choose some erudite quotation on the subject of travel for my title. However a quick search revealed that travel quotations are predominantly tight-arsed, pretentious guff, along the lines of "A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles". The kind of emetic, self-help rubbish you expect to see on a greetings card with a picture of a kitten on it. But there was one that one stuck out for being hilariously barmy. It goes like this: "Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged." - Howard Gardner. I'm not sure what Howard's point is; maybe that being well-travelled makes you less likely to become an evil dictator and commit mass-genocide. But my blog is called Hitler didn't travel. Hopefully my orhodoxy will be challenged. And it's about travelling to Mexico and around South America with Tom. Naturally.