Where in the World is Foreman?

Kitten of the Korn (Berat Albania) One thing you might notice as you travel in Albania is the amount of stray cat and dogs.  People do own dogs and cats as pets but the majority of animals you find day to day are strays.  They are everywhere.  From our first night in Tirana, we came across a beautiful blond dog.  And in every city since, there have been animals.  In Berat, you could find cats almost everywhere.  In Vlore and Durres, you were more likely to find doggos. While in Shkoder, a person who will remain nameless - let's call her Roofield - specifically cut up her dinner and kept it with her to feed the doggos.  The hilarious part was when she couldn't figure out why the dogs were then following her around.  She just "doesn't get it". "Roofield" fed "Earl" in Shkoder and was  surprised when Earl followed us downtown. Earl also likes his ears scratched and belly rubbed. Researching another topic of Albania, I came across th

As I have been driving along Albania’s highways, I can help but think of infrastructure. Infrastructure helped to make America successful.  Without the Transcontinental Railroad, businesses would never have expanded.  But because of this railroad connected both sides of the United States, it encouraged more people to move west. It encouraged more people to invest in different inventions like the telephone and telegraph (which gave us Alexander Graham’s company AT&T) so we could communicate across those long distances.  We could ship goods and people and thus ideas.  After World War II, the United States government dropped $25 BILLION on the Federal Aid Highway Act (or Interstate Highway act) to build an interstate highway system more than 40,000 miles long in 1956.  Now families could move to the suburbs in their Levitt-style ticky-tacky houses but businesses could also ship goods to more places outside the realm of the railroad.  More people could commute to work, which allow