I thought the subject was safety.

We spent two weeks on Bora Bora and two weeks on Moorea. They are the loveliest islands I have ever visited. The water is as clear as anything that I've ever seen. Snokeling is exceptional and literally a few feet from shore. The people are the friendliest and kindest people we have encountered. We were on Bora Bora during Bastille celebration and I will never forget the haunting music, a combination of Christain hymns and South Pacific flavor that various church choirs sang in their little town over a number of evenings.

But the fact is, there are open sewers. I don't blame the natives, it's the rotten French government. And I did get sick.

I have never been to Indonesia, but the fact is that they did kill a third of the ethnic Chinese just a few years ago. That's a horrific crime and obviously doesn't reflect well on the Indonesians.

When my wife and I were kids we went to Mexico quite often. It was close and it was foreign and I guess romantic. But the filth and poverty were undeniable. Our travels to Mexico stopped when our daughter was born except for a few cruises down the Mexican Riviera. You can't take a kid down there and expose them to the filth. Recently, a group of us rented a house down there, and I guess I'm getting too old to overlook the bad.