Look up to the stars, to the horizon of our next human adventure.
Wow! 2020 already. Time flies, fast, really fast. When I was 15 my imagination was convinced that by 2020 I would be in a fabulous retirement home… out amid the rings of Saturn. And we haven’t even been back to the Moon! Perhaps too much greed and too much poverty and too little adventuring has our humanity stuck in a rut.
I’m going to Italy this year. No more wishing and hoping because now the flight and hotels are booked and not only am I counting sleeps …. I leave in less than 2,000 hours.
In 1234 days I’ve managed to get to Level 25 in Italian, Level 17 in French, Level 11 in Greek, Level 6 in Esperanto and Level 4 in Russian. 
Might you think I'm obsessed? What's really going on is the number 1234. 😉
What started me on Duolingo was an attempt to learn more about music theory, which of course led to a geocache. Then Samantha Cristoforetti flew to space. Then a dream of a trip to Italy, on hold for now, and a love of learning something new, keeps growing those days, months and years of some 10 - 300 xps per day. Here's to 1200!!
It’s taken a few years, but at 10xp per ‘lesson’ and 20xp per ‘time trial’ …
L’ho fatto fino a quando al cento mille!
