by Tom Dyson
Casey Research
Palm Beach Research Group founder Mark Ford, whom I used to work with, expressed an important truth about life in his blog:
In the mid 1970s, my wife and I were living in a humble three-room house without indoor plumbing in N’Djamena, Chad. I was sitting on our front porch watching the rain spill off the roof and onto our little garden when I had this thought:
“One day, you will live in a big, fancy house back in the States. But you will never live in a house that can give you more pleasure than this one.”
My round-the-world trip – with my ex-wife Kate… our kids… all the countries and hotel rooms – was a two-year “intensive” on this one idea.
We got detained by the Egyptian military at a remote checkpoint last year. We spent the evening under arrest in a room with nothing but two broken, disconnected toilets in it…